netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/4] TC: refactor act

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Date:   Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:31:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pabeni@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        jiri@...nulli.us, daniel@...earbox.net, marcelo.leitner@...il.com,
        eyal.birger@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/4] TC: refactor act_mirred packets
 re-injection

From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:30:41 +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.
 ...

Series applied, thank you.