Subject: Re: [net-next V2 01/17] net/mlx5: E-Switch, Refactor setting source port

From: Vlad Buslov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:25:05 +0200

On Tue 09 Feb 2021 at 21:50, Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 21:17:11 +0200 Vlad Buslov wrote:
>> 4. Decapsulated payload appears on namespaced VF with IP address
>> 5.5.5.5:
>> 
>> $ sudo ip  netns exec ns0 tcpdump -ni enp8s0f0v1 -vvv -c 3
>
> So there are two VFs? Hm, completely missed that. Could you *please*
> provide an ascii diagram for the entire flow? None of those dumps
> you're showing gives us the high level picture, and it's quite hard 
> to follow which enpsfyxz interface is what.

Sure. Here it is:

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                                                     |
| OVS br      TC ingress                                TC ingress                    |
|          +---------------------+                   +---------------------+          |
|          |    TC ingress       |                   |    TC ingress       |          |
|          |   +-------------+   |                   |   +-------------+   |          |
|          |   |             |   |                   |   |             |   |          |
|   +------v---+---+     +---v---+------+     +------v---+---+     +---v---+------+   |
+---+              +-----+              +-----+              +-----+              +---+
    | UL rep       |     | VF0 rep      |     | vxlan        |     | VF1 rep      |
+---+              +-----+              +-----+              +-----+              +---+
|   +-------^------+     +-^------------+     +-----^--------+     +-------------^+   |
|           |              |                        |                            |    |
| Kernel    |              |                        |                            |    |
|           |              |        +---------------+     +--------------------+ |    |
|           |              |        |                     |namespace           | |    |
|           |              |        |                     |                    | |    |
|           |              | +------v-------+             |   +--------------+ | |    |
+----------------------------+              +-----------------+              +--------+
            |              | | VF0          |             |   | VF1          | | |
            |              | |              |             |   |              | | |
            |              | +----^---------+             |   +----------^---+ | |
            |              |      |                       |              |     | |
            |              |      |                       +--------------------+ |
            |              |      |                                      |       |
            |              |      |                                      |       |
            |              |      |                                      |       |
            |              |      |                                      |       |
            |              |      |                                      |       |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|           |              |      |                                      |       |    |
| Hardware  |              +------+                                      +-------+    |
|           |                                                                         |
|        +-----+                                                                      |
+--------+  |  +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
         |  v  |
         |     |
         +-----+