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Ido Schimmel says:
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vxlan: Add MDB support
tl;dr
=====
This patchset implements MDB support in the VXLAN driver, allowing it to
selectively forward IP multicast traffic to VTEPs with interested
receivers instead of flooding it to all the VTEPs as BUM. The motivating
use case is intra and inter subnet multicast forwarding using EVPN
[1][2], which means that MDB entries are only installed by the user
space control plane and no snooping is implemented, thereby avoiding a
lot of unnecessary complexity in the kernel.
Background
==========
Both the bridge and VXLAN drivers have an FDB that allows them to
forward Ethernet frames based on their destination MAC addresses and
VLAN/VNI. These FDBs are managed using the same PF_BRIDGE/RTM_*NEIGH
netlink messages and bridge(8) utility.
However, only the bridge driver has an MDB that allows it to selectively
forward IP multicast packets to bridge ports with interested receivers
behind them, based on (S, G) and (*, G) MDB entries. When these packets
reach the VXLAN driver they are flooded using the "all-zeros" FDB entry
(00:00:00:00:00:00). The entry either includes the list of all the VTEPs
in the tenant domain (when ingress replication is used) or the multicast
address of the BUM tunnel (when P2MP tunnels are used), to which all the
VTEPs join.
Networks that make heavy use of multicast in the overlay can benefit
from a solution that allows them to selectively forward IP multicast
traffic only to VTEPs with interested receivers. Such a solution is
described in the next section.
Motivation
==========
RFC 7432 [3] defines a "MAC/IP Advertisement route" (type 2) [4] that
allows VTEPs in the EVPN network to advertise and learn reachability
information for unicast MAC addresses. Traffic destined to a unicast MAC
address can therefore be selectively forwarded to a single VTEP behind
which the MAC is located.
The same is not true for IP multicast traffic. Such traffic is simply
flooded as BUM to all VTEPs in the broadcast domain (BD) / subnet,
regardless if a VTEP has interested receivers for the multicast stream
or not. This is especially problematic for overlay networks that make
heavy use of multicast.
The issue is addressed by RFC 9251 [1] that defines a "Selective
Multicast Ethernet Tag Route" (type 6) [5] which allows VTEPs in the
EVPN network to advertise multicast streams that they are interested in.
This is done by having each VTEP suppress IGMP/MLD packets from being
transmitted to the NVE network and instead communicate the information
over BGP to other VTEPs.
The draft in [2] further extends RFC 9251 with procedures to allow
efficient forwarding of IP multicast traffic not only in a given subnet,
but also between different subnets in a tenant domain.
The required changes in the bridge driver to support the above were
already merged in merge commit
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