[Cake] [PATCH net-next v7 4/7] sch_cake: Add NAT awareness to packet classifier

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Wed May 2 11:11:18 EDT 2018


When CAKE is deployed on a gateway that also performs NAT (which is a
common deployment mode), the host fairness mechanism cannot distinguish
internal hosts from each other, and so fails to work correctly.

To fix this, we add an optional NAT awareness mode, which will query the
kernel conntrack mechanism to obtain the pre-NAT addresses for each packet
and use that in the flow and host hashing.

When the shaper is enabled and the host is already performing NAT, the cost
of this lookup is negligible. However, in unlimited mode with no NAT being
performed, there is a significant CPU cost at higher bandwidths. For this
reason, the feature is turned off by default.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk>
---
 net/sched/sch_cake.c |   70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_cake.c b/net/sched/sch_cake.c
index a412db9b647e..38f1275dd83d 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_cake.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_cake.c
@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@
 #include <net/tcp.h>
 #include <net/flow_dissector.h>
 
+#if IS_REACHABLE(CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK)
+#include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.h>
+#include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_zones.h>
+#include <net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h>
+#endif
+
 #define CAKE_SET_WAYS (8)
 #define CAKE_MAX_TINS (8)
 #define CAKE_QUEUES (1024)
@@ -520,6 +526,61 @@ static bool cobalt_should_drop(struct cobalt_vars *vars,
 	return drop;
 }
 
+#if IS_REACHABLE(CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK)
+
+static inline void cake_update_flowkeys(struct flow_keys *keys,
+					const struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	enum ip_conntrack_info ctinfo;
+	bool rev = false;
+
+	struct nf_conn *ct;
+	const struct nf_conntrack_tuple *tuple;
+
+	if (tc_skb_protocol(skb) != htons(ETH_P_IP))
+		return;
+
+	ct = nf_ct_get(skb, &ctinfo);
+	if (ct) {
+		tuple = nf_ct_tuple(ct, CTINFO2DIR(ctinfo));
+	} else {
+		const struct nf_conntrack_tuple_hash *hash;
+		struct nf_conntrack_tuple srctuple;
+
+		if (!nf_ct_get_tuplepr(skb, skb_network_offset(skb),
+				       NFPROTO_IPV4, dev_net(skb->dev),
+				       &srctuple))
+			return;
+
+		hash = nf_conntrack_find_get(dev_net(skb->dev),
+					     &nf_ct_zone_dflt,
+					     &srctuple);
+		if (!hash)
+			return;
+
+		rev = true;
+		ct = nf_ct_tuplehash_to_ctrack(hash);
+		tuple = nf_ct_tuple(ct, !hash->tuple.dst.dir);
+	}
+
+	keys->addrs.v4addrs.src = rev ? tuple->dst.u3.ip : tuple->src.u3.ip;
+	keys->addrs.v4addrs.dst = rev ? tuple->src.u3.ip : tuple->dst.u3.ip;
+
+	if (keys->ports.ports) {
+		keys->ports.src = rev ? tuple->dst.u.all : tuple->src.u.all;
+		keys->ports.dst = rev ? tuple->src.u.all : tuple->dst.u.all;
+	}
+	if (rev)
+		nf_ct_put(ct);
+}
+#else
+static inline void cake_update_flowkeys(struct flow_keys *keys,
+					const struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	/* There is nothing we can do here without CONNTRACK */
+}
+#endif
+
 /* Cake has several subtle multiple bit settings. In these cases you
  *  would be matching triple isolate mode as well.
  */
@@ -547,6 +608,9 @@ cake_hash(struct cake_tin_data *q, const struct sk_buff *skb, int flow_mode)
 	skb_flow_dissect_flow_keys(skb, &keys,
 				   FLOW_DISSECTOR_F_STOP_AT_FLOW_LABEL);
 
+	if (flow_mode & CAKE_FLOW_NAT_FLAG)
+		cake_update_flowkeys(&keys, skb);
+
 	/* flow_hash_from_keys() sorts the addresses by value, so we have
 	 * to preserve their order in a separate data structure to treat
 	 * src and dst host addresses as independently selectable.
@@ -1775,6 +1839,12 @@ static int cake_change(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt,
 		q->flow_mode = (nla_get_u32(tb[TCA_CAKE_FLOW_MODE]) &
 				CAKE_FLOW_MASK);
 
+	if (tb[TCA_CAKE_NAT]) {
+		q->flow_mode &= ~CAKE_FLOW_NAT_FLAG;
+		q->flow_mode |= CAKE_FLOW_NAT_FLAG *
+			!!nla_get_u32(tb[TCA_CAKE_NAT]);
+	}
+
 	if (tb[TCA_CAKE_RTT]) {
 		q->interval = nla_get_u32(tb[TCA_CAKE_RTT]);
 



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