This patch affects both the P4 pipeline implementation and the
Java pipeconf.
P4 PIPELINE
- Less tables and smarter use of metadata to reduce inter-tables
dependencies and favor parallel execution of tables.
- Removed unused actions / renamed existing ones to make forwarding
behavior clearer (e.g. ingress_port_vlan table)
- Remove co-existence of simple and hansed table. Hashed should be the
default one, but implementations that do not support action profiles
might compile fabric.p4 to use the simple one.
- Use @name annotations for match fields to make control plane
independent of table implementation.
- Use @hidden to avoid showing actions and table on the p4info that
cannot be controlled at runtime.
- First attempt to support double VLAN cross-connect (xconnect table).
- New design has been tested with "fabric-refactoring" branch of
fabric-p4test:
github.com/opennetworkinglab/fabric-p4test/tree/fabric-refactoring
JAVA PIPECONF
This patch brings a major refactoring that reflects the experience
gathered in the past months of working on fabric.p4 and reasoning on its
pipeconf implementation. Indeed, the FlowObjective API is
under-specified and sometimes ambiguous which makes the process of
creating and maintaining a pipeliner implementation tedious. This
refactoring brings a simplified implementation by removing unused/
unnecessary functionalities and by recognizing commonality when possible
(e.g. by means of abstract and utility classes). It also makes design
patterns more explicit and consistent. Overall, the goal is to reduce
technical debt and to make it easier to support new features as we
evolve fabric.p4
Changes include:
- Changes in pipeliner/interpreter to reflect new pipeline design.
- By default translate objective treatment to PiAction. This favors
debuggability of flow rules in ONOS.
- Support new NextObjective’s NextTreatment class.
- Remove lots of unused/unnecessary code (e.g. async callback handling
for pending objective install status in pipeliner as current
implementation was always returning success)
- Gather commonality in abstract classes and simplify implementation
for objective translator (filtering, forwarding, next)
- New implementation of ForwardingFunctionTypes (FFT) that looks at
criterion instance values along with their types (to avoid relying on
case-specific if-else conditions to recognize variants of an FFT)
- Adaptive translation of NextObjective based on presence of simple or
hashed table.
- Support DENY FilteringObjective
Also:
- Fix onos-p4-gen-constants to avoid generating conflicting
PiMatchFieldId variable names.
- Install Graphviz tools in p4vm to generate p4c graphs
- Generate p4c graphs by default when compiling fabric.p4
- Use more compact Hex string when printing PI values
Change-Id: Ife79e44054dc5bc48833f95d0551a7370150eac5
To match what used in Stratum
Change-Id: Ic4b87bcad6c3da36030fa01ee4135f60c05fcd78
(cherry picked from commit 1a16f00d8ddfb47c6423e5bc70f5d362230debb7)
- Allow running up to a given step of install-p4-tools.sh
(e.g. helpful to install only PI)
- Install fabric-p4test deps (ONOS-7656)
- Fix python protobuf libraries not installed
Change-Id: I443edb08f455703ae682e485a89d793a584c30ff
If the env variable DEBUG_FLAGS is set to false, build tools without
debug features to improve throughput of BMv2 and reduce CPU/memory
footprint.
Debug features include BMv2 logging, debugger, nanomsg, etc.
With DEBUG_FLAGS=true, when running 20 BMv2 instances, it requires 4 CPU
cores 100%. With DEBUG_FLAGS=false, when running 50 BMv2 instances,
overall CPU usage is only 1%.
Change-Id: Ifdd8ea976940b440797beb0e2300a749a55907dd
Includes:
- Use new P4Runtime "v1" package names
- Removed VALID match
- New table entry priority spec (1 is min priority, not 0)
- Fixed p4c-bm2-ss to include arch flag
- Re-compiled P4 programs with more recent p4c (with updated p4info)
Change-Id: I05908f40eda0f0c755009268fd261fb8bcc9be35
Includes fixes for:
- ONOS-7593: Support for indirect resource Index type
- ONOS-7595: Removed ID from direct resources
- P4Runtime requires unset bits to be 0 in ternary field matches
- Incorrect parsing of flow rule byte counters
- Full entity names in P4Info with top-level control block (fixed only
for basic.p4, other programs need to be re-compiled and PI IDs in
respective pipeconf changed)
Change-Id: Ia19aa949c02e363a550e692915c6d6516a2d13d7
- Build protobuf-c (libprotobuf-c-dev is not available on Ubuntu 14.04
apt repository)
- Build libboost-iostreams1.58 (The highest version of libboost-iostreams on Ubuntu 14.04
apt repository is 1.55, which will cause error when building p4c)
Change-Id: I00648e3c4890ebee0052c643e9f4b4ea10d345a9
Among other things, build now is not based on the upstream version of
onos-setup-p4-dev, but on the local one.
Change-Id: I270a324152a9349d6a9989aa8b5a38b45e1856d9
