Subject: [PATCH net-next v4 0/4] TC: refactor act_mirred packets re-injection

From: Paolo Abeni <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:34:56 +0200

This series is aimed at improving the act_mirred redirect performances.
Such action is used by OVS to represent TC S/W flows, and it's current largest
bottle-neck is the need for a skb_clone() for each packet.

The first 2 patches introduce some cleanup and safeguards to allow extending 
tca_result - we will use it to store RCU protected redirect information - and
introduce a clear separation between user-space accessible tcfa_action
values and internal values accessible only by the kernel.
Then a new tcfa_action value is introduced: TC_ACT_REINJECT, similar to
TC_ACT_REDIRECT, but preserving the mirred semantic. Such value is not
accessible from user-space.
The last patch exploits the newly introduced infrastructure in the act_mirred
action, to avoid a skb_clone, when possible.

Overall this the above gives a ~10% performance improvement in forwarding tput,
when using the TC S/W datapath.

v1 -> v2:
 - preserve the rcu lock in act_bpf
 - add and use a new action value to reinject the packets, preserving the mirred
   semantic

v2 -> v3:
 - renamed to new action as TC_ACT_REINJECT
 - TC_ACT_REINJECT is not exposed to user-space

v3 -> v4:
 - dropped the TC_ACT_REDIRECT patch
 - report failure via extack, too
 - rename the new action as TC_ACT_REINSERT
 - skip clone only if the control action don't touch tcf_result

Paolo Abeni (4):
  net/sched: user-space can't set unknown tcfa_action values
  tc/act: remove unneeded RCU lock in action callback
  net/tc: introduce TC_ACT_REINSERT.
  act_mirred: use TC_ACT_REINSERT when possible

 include/net/act_api.h        |  2 +-
 include/net/pkt_cls.h        |  3 ++
 include/net/sch_generic.h    | 21 +++++++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/pkt_cls.h |  6 ++--
 net/core/dev.c               |  6 +++-
 net/sched/act_api.c          | 17 +++++++++++
 net/sched/act_csum.c         | 12 ++------
 net/sched/act_ife.c          |  5 +--
 net/sched/act_mirred.c       | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 net/sched/act_sample.c       |  4 +--
 net/sched/act_skbedit.c      | 10 ++----
 net/sched/act_skbmod.c       | 21 ++++++-------
 net/sched/act_tunnel_key.c   |  6 +---
 net/sched/act_vlan.c         | 19 +++++-------
 14 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)

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