Using mlxsw driver, the configurations are offloaded just in case that
there is a physical port which is enslaved to the virtual device
(e.g., to a bridge). In 'mirror_gre_bridge_1q_lag' test, the bridge gets an
address and route before there are ports in the bridge. It means that these
configurations are not offloaded.
Till now the test passes with mlxsw driver even that the RIF of the
bridge is not in the hardware, because the ARP packets are trapped in
layer 2 and also mirrored, so there is no real need of the RIF in hardware.
The previous patch changed the traps 'ARP_REQUEST' and 'ARP_RESPONSE' to
be done at layer 3 instead of layer 2. With this change the ARP packets are
not trapped during the test, as the RIF is not in the hardware because of
the order of configurations.
Reorder the configurations to make them to be offloaded, then the test will
pass with the change of the traps.
Signed-off-by: Amit Cohen <amcohen@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Motivation
==========
One of the nice things about network namespaces is that they allow one
to easily create and test complex environments.
Unfortunately, these namespaces can not be used with actual switching
ASICs, as their ports can not be migrated to other network namespaces
(NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL) and most of them probably do not support the
L1-separation provided by namespaces.
However, a similar kind of flexibility can be achieved by using VRFs and
by looping the switch ports together. For example:
br0
+
vrf-h1 | vrf-h2
+ +---+----+ +
| | | |
192.0.2.1/24 + + + + 192.0.2.2/24
swp1 swp2 swp3 swp4
+ + + +
| | | |
+--------+ +--------+
The VRFs act as lightweight namespaces representing hosts connected to
the switch.
This approach for testing switch ASICs has several advantages over the
traditional method that requires multiple physical machines, to name a
few:
1. Only the device under test (DUT) is being tested without noise from
other system.
2. Ability to easily provision complex topologies. Testing bridging
between 4-ports LAGs or 8-way ECMP requires many physical links that are
not always available. With the VRF-based approach one merely needs to
loopback more ports.
These tests are written with switch ASICs in mind, but they can be run
on any Linux box using veth pairs to emulate physical loopbacks.
Guidelines for Writing Tests
============================
o Where possible, reuse an existing topology for different tests instead
of recreating the same topology.
o Tests that use anything but the most trivial topologies should include
an ASCII art showing the topology.
o Where possible, IPv6 and IPv4 addresses shall conform to RFC 3849 and
RFC 5737, respectively.
o Where possible, tests shall be written so that they can be reused by
multiple topologies and added to lib.sh.
o Checks shall be added to lib.sh for any external dependencies.
o Code shall be checked using ShellCheck [1] prior to submission.
1. https://www.shellcheck.net/
e386a527fc