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To: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
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	Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH net-next v3 0/3] make skip_sw actually skip software
Date: Wed,  6 Mar 2024 16:58:08 +0000
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Hi,

During development of flower-route[1], which I
recently presented at FOSDEM[2], I noticed that
CPU usage, would increase the more rules I installed
into the hardware for IP forwarding offloading.

Since we use TC flower offload for the hottest
prefixes, and leave the long tail to the normal (non-TC)
Linux network stack for slow-path IP forwarding.
We therefore need both the hardware and software
datapath to perform well.

I found that skip_sw rules, are quite expensive
in the kernel datapath, since they must be evaluated
and matched upon, before the kernel checks the
skip_sw flag.

This patchset optimizes the case where all rules
are skip_sw, by implementing a TC bypass for these
cases, where TC is only used as a control plane
for the hardware path.

CHanges from v2:
- Patch 3:
  - Fix source_inline
  - Fix build failure, when CONFIG_NET_CLS without CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT.

Changes from v1:
- Patch 1:
  - Add Reviewed-By from Jiri Pirko
- Patch 2:
  - Move code, to avoid forward declaration (Jiri).
- Patch 3
  - Refactor to use a static key.
  - Add performance data for trapping, or sending
    a packet to a non-existent chain (as suggested by Marcelo).

[1] flower-route
    https://github.com/fiberby-dk/flower-route

[2] FOSDEM talk
    https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3337-flying-higher-hardware-offloading-with-bird/

Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen (3):
  net: sched: cls_api: add skip_sw counter
  net: sched: cls_api: add filter counter
  net: sched: make skip_sw actually skip software

 include/net/pkt_cls.h     |  9 +++++++++
 include/net/sch_generic.h |  4 ++++
 net/core/dev.c            | 10 ++++++++++
 net/sched/cls_api.c       | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 64 insertions(+)

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2.43.0