History log of /linux-master/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/tc/ct_fs_dmfs.c
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# 3ee61ebb 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>


# 76909000 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>