/* * Copyright (c) 2008 Nicira Networks. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at: * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ #ifndef TAG_H #define TAG_H 1 #include #include #include #include "util.h" /* * Tagging support. * * A 'tag' represents an arbitrary category. Currently, tags are used to * represent categories of flows and in particular the dependencies for a flow * switching decision. For example, if a flow's output port is based on * knowledge that source MAC 00:02:e3:0f:80:a4 is on eth0, then a tag that * represents that dependency is attached to that flow in the flowtracking hash * table. * * As this example shows, the universe of possible categories is very large, * and even the number of categories that are in use at a given time can be * very large. This means that keeping track of category membership via * conventional means (lists, bitmaps, etc.) is likely to be expensive. * * Tags are actually implemented via a "superimposed coding", as discussed in * Knuth TAOCP v.3 section 6.5 "Retrieval on Secondary Keys". A tag is an * unsigned integer in which exactly 2 bits are set to 1 and the rest set to 0. * For 32-bit integers (as currently used) there are 32 * 31 / 2 = 496 unique * tags; for 64-bit integers there are 64 * 63 / 2 = 2,016. * * Because there is a small finite number of unique tags, tags must collide * after some number of them have been created. In practice we generally * create tags by choosing bits randomly. * * The key property of tags is that we can combine them without increasing the * amount of data required using bitwise-OR, since the result has the 1-bits * from both tags set. The necessary tradeoff is that the result is even more * ambiguous: if combining two tags yields a value with 4 bits set to 1, then * the result value will test as having 4 * 3 / 2 = 6 unique tags, not just the * two tags that we combined. * * The upshot is this: a value that is the bitwise-OR combination of a number * of tags will always include the tags that were combined, but it may contain * any number of additional tags as well. This is acceptable for flowtracking, * since we want to be sure that we catch every flow that needs to be * revalidated, but it is OK if we revalidate a few extra flows as well. * * If we combine too many tags, then the result will have every bit set, so * that it will test as including every tag. Fortunately, this is not a big * problem for us: although there are many flows overall, each individual flow * belongs only to a small number of categories. */ /* Represents a tag, or the combination of 0 or more tags. */ typedef uint32_t tag_type; tag_type tag_create_random(void); tag_type tag_create_deterministic(uint32_t seed); static inline bool tag_intersects(tag_type, tag_type); static inline bool tag_is_valid(tag_type); /* Returns true if 'a' and 'b' have at least one tag in common, * false if their set of tags is disjoint. . */ static inline bool tag_intersects(tag_type a, tag_type b) { tag_type x = a & b; return (x & (x - 1)) != 0; } /* Returns true if 'tag' is a valid tag, that is, if exactly two bits are set * to 1 and the rest to 0. Otherwise, returns false. */ static inline bool tag_is_valid(tag_type tag) { tag_type x = tag & (tag - 1); tag_type y = x & (x - 1); return x && !y; } /* * A tag set accumulates tags with reduced ambiguity compared to a single tag. * The flow tracking uses tag sets to keep track of tags that need to * revalidated after a number of packets have been processed. */ #define TAG_SET_SIZE 4 struct tag_set { tag_type total; tag_type tags[TAG_SET_SIZE]; unsigned int n; }; void tag_set_init(struct tag_set *); void tag_set_add(struct tag_set *, tag_type); static inline bool tag_set_is_empty(const struct tag_set *); static inline bool tag_set_intersects(const struct tag_set *, tag_type); /* Returns true if 'set' will match no tags at all, * false if it will match at least one tag. */ static inline bool tag_set_is_empty(const struct tag_set *set) { return !set->n; } /* Returns true if any of the tags in 'tags' are also in 'set', * false if the intersection is empty. */ static inline bool tag_set_intersects(const struct tag_set *set, tag_type tags) { BUILD_ASSERT_DECL(TAG_SET_SIZE == 4); return (tag_intersects(set->total, tags) && (tag_intersects(set->tags[0], tags) || tag_intersects(set->tags[1], tags) || tag_intersects(set->tags[2], tags) || tag_intersects(set->tags[3], tags))); } #endif /* tag.h */