tree 7aa07ff32a7c48caaadc7814b95d93d72677bc25
parent 4717b05328ba75232befb72657a110e0f7354be4
parent c29f74e0df7a02b8303bcdce93a7c0132d62577a
author David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1573616547 -0800
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1573616547 -0800

Merge branch 'netfilter-flowtable-hardware-offload'

Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

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netfilter flowtable hardware offload

The following patchset adds hardware offload support for the flowtable
infrastructure [1]. This infrastructure provides a fast datapath for
the classic Linux forwarding path that users can enable through policy,
eg.

 table inet x {
      flowtable f {
               hook ingress priority 10 devices = { eth0, eth1 }
	       flags offload
      }
      chain y {
               type filter hook forward priority 0; policy accept;
               ip protocol tcp flow offload @f
      }
 }

This example above enables the fastpath for TCP traffic between devices
eth0 and eth1. Users can turn on the hardware offload through the
'offload' flag from the flowtable definition. If this new flag is not
specified, the software flowtable datapath is used.

This patchset is composed of 4 preparation patches:

   room to extend this infrastructure, eg. accelerate bridge forwarding.

And 2 patches to add the hardware offload control and data planes:

   hardware offload. This includes a new NFTA_FLOWTABLE_FLAGS netlink
   attribute to convey the optional NF_FLOWTABLE_HW_OFFLOAD flag.
   API available at net/core/flow_offload.h to represent the flow
   through two flow_rule objects to configure an exact 5-tuple matching
   on each direction plus the corresponding forwarding actions, that is,
   the MAC address, NAT and checksum updates; and port redirection in
   order to configure the hardware datapath. This patch only supports
   for IPv4 support and statistics collection for flow aging as an initial
   step.

This patchset introduces a new flow_block callback type that needs to be
set up to configure the flowtable hardware offload.

The first client of this infrastructure follows up after this batch.
I would like to thank Mellanox for developing the first upstream driver
to use this infrastructure.

[1] Documentation/networking/nf_flowtable.txt
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>