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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] virtio-network: Clarify VLAN filter table configuration
On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 06:02:05AM +0200, Parav Pandit wrote: > The filtering behavior of the VLAN filter commands is not very clear as > discussed in thread [1]. > > Hence, add the command description and device requirements for it. > > [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg912392.html > Fixes: https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec/issues/147 > Suggested-by: Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@oracle.com> > Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> Looks like we are going back to issues that we had in v1. what happened here? > --- > changelog: > v3->v4: > - added description for accepting vlan tagged packets when vlan > filter is not negotiated > v2->v3: > - corrected grammar > - simplified description for untagged packets > v1->v2: > - adapt to new file path > v0->v1: > - added missing conformance section link > --- > .../virtio-network/device-conformance.tex | 1 + > device-types/virtio-network/device.tex | 22 +++++++++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/device-types/virtio-network/device-conformance.tex b/device-types/virtio-network/device-conformance.tex > index c686377..54f6783 100644 > --- a/device-types/virtio-network/device-conformance.tex > +++ b/device-types/virtio-network/device-conformance.tex > @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ > \item \ref{devicenormative:Device Types / Network Device / Device Operation / Processing of Incoming Packets} > \item \ref{devicenormative:Device Types / Network Device / Device Operation / Control Virtqueue / Packet Receive Filtering} > \item \ref{devicenormative:Device Types / Network Device / Device Operation / Control Virtqueue / Setting MAC Address Filtering} > +\item \ref{devicenormative:Device Types / Network Device / Device Operation / Control Virtqueue / VLAN Filtering} > \item \ref{devicenormative:Device Types / Network Device / Device Operation / Control Virtqueue / Gratuitous Packet Sending} > \item \ref{devicenormative:Device Types / Network Device / Device Operation / Control Virtqueue / Automatic receive steering in multiqueue mode} > \item \ref{devicenormative:Device Types / Network Device / Device Operation / Control Virtqueue / Receive-side scaling (RSS) / RSS processing} > diff --git a/device-types/virtio-network/device.tex b/device-types/virtio-network/device.tex > index e7cdd6f..0e6d872 100644 > --- a/device-types/virtio-network/device.tex > +++ b/device-types/virtio-network/device.tex > @@ -1210,6 +1210,28 @@ \subsubsection{Control Virtqueue}\label{sec:Device Types / Network Device / Devi > Both the VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN_ADD and VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN_DEL > command take a little-endian 16-bit VLAN id as the command-specific-data. > > +VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN_ADD command adds the specified VLAN to the VLAN > +filtering table. > + > +VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN_DEL command removes specified VLAN from the VLAN the specified > +filtering table which was previously added using > +VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN_ADD command. bad ordering so it's unclear what was added. it's vlan not the table. So: removes the specified VLAN - which was previously added using VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN_ADD command - from the VLAN filtering table. > + > +\devicenormative{\subparagraph}{VLAN Filtering}{Device Types / Network Device / Device Operation / Control Virtqueue / VLAN Filtering} > + > +When VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VLAN is not negotiated, the device accepts > +all VLAN tagged packets that matches the device's filter > +configuration. bad grammar here and it's not a match. > + > +When VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VLAN is negotiated, the device starts with > +an empty VLAN filtering table. > + > +When VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VLAN is negotiated, the device accepts all > +VLAN tagged packets whose VLAN tag is found in the VLAN filtering > +table; the device should drop all VLAN tagged packets whose VLAN tag > +is not found in the VLAN filtering table. The VLAN filtering table > +applies only to the VLAN tagged packets. > + > \subparagraph{Legacy Interface: VLAN Filtering}\label{sec:Device Types / Network Device / Device Operation / Control Virtqueue / VLAN Filtering / Legacy Interface: VLAN Filtering} > When using the legacy interface, transitional devices and drivers > MUST format the VLAN id > -- > 2.26.2
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