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    seg6: add NEXT-C-SID support for SRv6 End.X behavior · 7458575a
    Andrea Mayer authored
    The NEXT-C-SID mechanism described in [1] offers the possibility of
    encoding several SRv6 segments within a single 128 bit SID address. Such
    a SID address is called a Compressed SID (C-SID) container. In this way,
    the length of the SID List can be drastically reduced.
    
    A SID instantiated with the NEXT-C-SID flavor considers an IPv6 address
    logically structured in three main blocks: i) Locator-Block; ii)
    Locator-Node Function; iii) Argument.
    
                            C-SID container
    +------------------------------------------------------------------+
    |     Locator-Block      |Loc-Node|            Argument            |
    |                        |Function|                                |
    +------------------------------------------------------------------+
    <--------- B -----------> <- NF -> <------------- A --------------->
    
       (i) The Locator-Block can be any IPv6 prefix available to the provider;
    
      (ii) The Locator-Node Function represents the node and the function to
           be triggered when a packet is received on the node;
    
     (iii) The Argument carries the remaining C-SIDs in the current C-SID
           container.
    
    This patch leverages the NEXT-C-SID mechanism previously introduced in the
    Linux SRv6 subsystem [2] to support SID compression capabilities in the
    SRv6 End.X behavior [3].
    An SRv6 End.X behavior with NEXT-C-SID flavor works as an End.X behavior
    but it is capable of processing the compressed SID List encoded in C-SID
    containers.
    
    An SRv6 End.X behavior with NEXT-C-SID flavor can be configured to support
    user-provided Locator-Block and Locator-Node Function lengths. In this
    implementation, such lengths must be evenly divisible by 8 (i.e. must be
    byte-aligned), otherwise the kernel informs the user about invalid
    values with a meaningful error code and message through netlink_ext_ack.
    
    If Locator-Block and/or Locator-Node Function lengths are not provided
    by the user during configuration of an SRv6 End.X behavior instance with
    NEXT-C-SID flavor, the kernel will choose their default values i.e.,
    32-bit Locator-Block and 16-bit Locator-Node Function.
    
    [1] - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-spring-srv6-srh-compression
    [2] - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220912171619.16943-1-andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it/
    [3] - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8986#name-endx-l3-cross-connectSigned-off-by: default avatarAndrea Mayer <andrea.mayer@uniroma2.it>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarHangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230812180926.16689-2-andrea.mayer@uniroma2.itSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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