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Simon Horman says:
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Introduce conntrack offloading to the nfp driver
Louis Peens says:
This is the first in a series of patches to offload conntrack
to the nfp. The approach followed is to flatten out three
different flow rules into a single offloaded flow. The three
different flows are:
1) The rule sending the packet to conntrack (pre_ct)
2) The rule matching on +trk+est after a packet has been through
conntrack. (post_ct)
3) The rule received via callback from the netfilter (nft)
In order to offload a flow we need a combination of all three flows, but
they could be added/deleted at different times and in different order.
To solve this we save potential offloadable CT flows in the driver,
and every time we receive a callback we check against these saved flows
for valid merges. Once we have a valid combination of all three flows
this will be offloaded to the NFP. This is demonstrated in the diagram
below.
+-------------+ +----------+
| pre_ct flow +--------+ | nft flow |
+-------------+ v +------+---+
+----------+ |
| tc_merge +--------+ |
+----------+ v v
+--------------+ ^ +-------------+
| post_ct flow +-------+ +---+nft_tc merge |
+--------------+ | +-------------+
|
|
|
v
Offload to nfp
This series is only up to the point of the pre_ct and post_ct
merges into the tc_merge. Follow up series will continue
to add the nft flows and merging of these flows with the result
of the pre_ct and post_ct merged flows.
Changes since v2:
- nfp: flower-ct: add zone table entry when handling pre/post_ct flows
Fixed another docstring. Should finally have the patch check
environment properly configured now to avoid more of these.
- nfp: flower-ct: add tc merge functionality
Fixed warning found by "kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>"
Added code comment explaining chain_index comparison
Changes since v1:
- nfp: flower-ct: add ct zone table
Fixed unused variable compile warning
Fixed missing colon in struct description
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Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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