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29-Sep-2021 |
Paul Blakey <paulb@nvidia.com> |
net/mlx5: CT: Add software steering ct flow steering provider fs_core layer adds extra book keeping that is either unneeded for CT, or unused by the underlying software steering, such as allocating FTEs and FTE ids, saving the match key and mask, and autogroups management. On top of that, direct steering has a translation layer (fs_dr) from PRM commands to direct steering objects, for example, creating temporary dr_action objects. This has a performance impact when dealing with CT high insertion rate. To use direct steering (smfs) directly for ct, add a tc ct fs smfs implementation. Instead of dmfs autogroups, smfs ct fs uses one of 4 predefined dr matchers in CT and CT-NAT tables, for each combination of tuple ethertype (ipv4/ipv6), and tuple ip_proto (udp/tcp) that is currently used by nf flow table flow offload. At rule insertions, validate the flow rule fits one of the predfined matcher, and insert to it. To fill the dr_actions of the rule efficiently, create the fwd to post_ct tbl dr_action at fs init, the count dr_action at counter creation, and re-use the already pre-allocated modify header dr_action. Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey <paulb@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Oz Shlomo <ozsh@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
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23-Nov-2021 |
Paul Blakey <paulb@nvidia.com> |
net/mlx5: CT: Introduce a platform for multiple flow steering providers Currently, fs_core layer provides flow steering services to the driver including: autogroups, allocating FTEs (flow table entries) and FTE ids, and support of fte action modification. If then software steering is configured, rule insertion will go through a translation layer from firmware buffers to software steering objects (see fs_dr.c). The connection tracking table is a system table that is not directly controlled by the user and is a very high scale table. These fs_core services introduces an overhead that may be optimized by using software steering API directly. Introduce ct flow steering interface to allow multiple flow steering providers. Use the new interface to implement the current dmfs (device managed flow steering) provider which uses fs_core insertion. Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey <paulb@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Oz Shlomo <ozsh@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
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