Updated the gtpu plugin code to support the PDU Session user plane protocol, required for 5G, as
specified in 3GPP TS 38.415 version 17.0.0. This enables some initial support of 5G gNodeB's with
the gtpu plugin.
New features:
- Basic support for the GTP-U Extension Header Flag.
Packets with one extension can now be decapsulated.
This enables basic support of the PDU Session user plane protocol (3GPP TS 38.415 version 17.0.0).
New tunnels can be created with a PDU enable flag and a 6-bit QoS Flow Identifier (QFI).
With this, encapsulated packets will have the PDU Session extension header, and the QFI set.
- Ability to forward GTP-U packets that are not handled by the plugin directly.
Only GTP-U packets with a message type of 255 (G-PDU) are handled directly.
However, 3GPP TS 29.281 defines several other message types like echo and error indication.
A new feature is added to optionally forward unknown or unsupported packets to a new IP address.
This works separately for unknown GTP-U message types, unknown TEIDs, and packets with an unknown
GTP-U header.
This allows both echo and error indications from a 5G gNodeB to be handled by a different system
outside VPP.
- Simple way to get metrics for active tunnels and on tunnel close.
In 5G session/tunnel lifetime is often short and created frequently.
The normal API becomes too slow and inaccurate when too many tunnels are created and deleted
every second.
Improvements:
- A clean ground structure to handle multiple message type in the future.
The code path for G-PDU packets is optimized for performance, representing the typical case.
Unsupported GTP-U packets enter a slow path that decodes the nature of the error.
This presents a easy hook to handle other message types in the future.
- Improved error reporting
When using traces there is more details in the tunnel descriptions.
- Updated the API with several enums.
Fixes:
- gtpu0->length field in IPv6 was computed with IPv4 header lengths in the encapsulation code.
- vec_set_len (t->rewrite, ...) size was computed with the IPv4 header size also for IPv6 tunnels.
Issues:
- This PR does not enable full support of the 3GPP specification.
In particular it only supports a single QoS/QFI flow for each tunnel.
It ignores all incoming extension header flags.
- API functions might change again when/if more support of the 3GPP TS 38.415 spec is added.
Note that I have bumped the API version to 2.1.0 as it seems to be the correct approach based on
my API changes.
Type: feature
Signed-off-by: Rune E. Jensen <runeerle@wgtwo.com>
Change-Id: I91cd2b31f2561f1b3fb1e46c4c34a5a3c71b4625
Type: improvement
Some tests i.e. ipsec see performance regression when offload flags
are moved to 2nd cacheline. This patch moves them back to 1st cacheline.
Change-Id: I6ead45ff6d2c467b0d248f409e27c2ba31758741
Signed-off-by: Mohsin Kazmi <sykazmi@cisco.com>
Type: refactor
This patch refactors the offload flags in vlib_buffer_t.
There are two main reasons behind this refactoring.
First, offload flags are insufficient to represent outer
and inner headers offloads. Second, room for these flags
in first cacheline of vlib_buffer_t is also limited.
This patch introduces a generic offload flag in first
cacheline. And detailed offload flags in 2nd cacheline
of the structure for performance optimization.
Change-Id: Icc363a142fb9208ec7113ab5bbfc8230181f6004
Signed-off-by: Mohsin Kazmi <sykazmi@cisco.com>
This patch aims to improve decap performance by reducing expensive
hash_get callings as less as possible using AVX512 on XEON.
e.g. vxlan, vxlan_gpe, geneve, gtpu.
For the existing code, if vtep4 of the current packet match the last
vtep4_key_t well, expensive hash computation can be avoided and the
code returns directly.
This patch improves tunnel decap multiple flows case greatly by
leveraging 512bit vector register on XEON accommodating 8 vtep4_keys.
It enhances the possiblity of avoiding unnecessary hash computing
once hash key of the current packet hits any one of 8 in the 512bit
cache.
The oldest element in vtep4_cache_t is updated in round-robin order.
vlib_get_buffers is also leveraged in the meanwhile.
Type: improvement
Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu>
Signed-off-by: Junfeng Wang <drenfong.wang@intel.com>
Change-Id: I313103202bd76f2dd638cd942554721b37ddad60
this patch adds the offloading capability for the IPv4 GTPU
tunnel which the next-node is assigned as IPv6
Type: feature
Signed-off-by: Chenmin Sun <chenmin.sun@intel.com>
Change-Id: Ie39cd43058d36514656351dc6e906a19d5de89c0
Bypass node MUST NOT intercept a packet if destination IP doesn’t match
a local address. However IP address interpretation depends on the VRF,
hence bypass node must take that into account.
This patch also factors-out common VTEP management and checking code.
Type: improvement
Signed-off-by: Nick Zavaritsky <nick.zavaritsky@emnify.com>
Change-Id: I5665d94882bbf45d15f8da140c7ada528ec7fa94
ip4 gtpu cli/api (using flow infra) to create flows and enable them on
different hardware (currently tested with ice)
to offload a gtpu tunnel onto hw:
set flow-offload gtpu hw TwentyFiveGigabitEthernet3/0/0 rx gtpu_tunnel0
to remove offload:
set flow-offload gtpu hw TwentyFiveGigabitEthernet3/0/0 rx gtpu_tunnel0 del
TODO:ipv6 handling
Type: feature
Signed-off-by: Chenmin Sun <chenmin.sun@intel.com>
Change-Id: I8e356feeb0b16cfeadc1bbbe92f773aa2916e715
