History log of /linux-master/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_procfs.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# b0381776 14-Jun-2022 Vlad Buslov <vladbu@nvidia.com>

netfilter: nf_flow_table: count pending offload workqueue tasks

To improve hardware offload debuggability count pending 'add', 'del' and
'stats' flow_table offload workqueue tasks. Counters are incremented before
scheduling new task and decremented when workqueue handler finishes
executing. These counters allow user to diagnose congestion on hardware
offload workqueues that can happen when either CPU is starved and workqueue
jobs are executed at lower rate than new ones are added or when
hardware/driver can't keep up with the rate.

Implement the described counters as percpu counters inside new struct
netns_ft which is stored inside struct net. Expose them via new procfs file
'/proc/net/stats/nf_flowtable' that is similar to existing 'nf_conntrack'
file.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Oz Shlomo <ozsh@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>