tree 7aa07ff32a7c48caaadc7814b95d93d72677bc25
parent 8bb69f3b2918788435cbd5834c66682642c09fba
author Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> 1573514996 +0100
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1573616546 -0800

netfilter: nf_flow_table: hardware offload support

This patch adds the dataplane hardware offload to the flowtable
infrastructure. Three new flags represent the hardware state of this
flow:

* FLOW_OFFLOAD_HW: This flow entry resides in the hardware.
* FLOW_OFFLOAD_HW_DYING: This flow entry has been scheduled to be remove
  from hardware. This might be triggered by either packet path (via TCP
  RST/FIN packet) or via aging.
* FLOW_OFFLOAD_HW_DEAD: This flow entry has been already removed from
  the hardware, the software garbage collector can remove it from the
  software flowtable.

This patch supports for:

* IPv4 only.
* Aging via FLOW_CLS_STATS, no packet and byte counter synchronization
  at this stage.

This patch also adds the action callback that specifies how to convert
the flow entry into the flow_rule object that is passed to the driver.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>