net: Add flow_keys digest
Some users of flow keys (well just sch_choke now) need to pass
flow_keys in skbuff cb, and use them for exact comparisons of flows
so that skb->hash is not sufficient. In order to increase size of
the flow_keys structure, we introduce another structure for
the purpose of passing flow keys in skbuff cb. We limit this structure
to sixteen bytes, and we will technically treat this as a digest of
flow_keys struct hence its name flow_keys_digest. In the first
incaranation we just copy the flow_keys structure up to 16 bytes--
this is the same information previously passed in the cb. In the
future, we'll adapt this for larger flow_keys and could use something
like SHA-1 over the whole flow_keys to improve the quality of the
digest.
Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/net/flow_keys.h b/include/net/flow_keys.h
index dc8fd81..6d6ef62 100644
--- a/include/net/flow_keys.h
+++ b/include/net/flow_keys.h
@@ -42,4 +42,20 @@
u32 flow_hash_from_keys(struct flow_keys *keys);
unsigned int flow_get_hlen(const unsigned char *data, unsigned int max_len,
__be16 protocol);
+
+/* struct flow_keys_digest:
+ *
+ * This structure is used to hold a digest of the full flow keys. This is a
+ * larger "hash" of a flow to allow definitively matching specific flows where
+ * the 32 bit skb->hash is not large enough. The size is limited to 16 bytes so
+ * that it can by used in CB of skb (see sch_choke for an example).
+ */
+#define FLOW_KEYS_DIGEST_LEN 16
+struct flow_keys_digest {
+ u8 data[FLOW_KEYS_DIGEST_LEN];
+};
+
+void make_flow_keys_digest(struct flow_keys_digest *digest,
+ const struct flow_keys *flow);
+
#endif