netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net/sched: act_ct: enable stats for HW offloaded entries

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Date:   Fri, 27 Nov 2020 23:31:44 -0300
From:   Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, wenxu@...oud.cn, paulb@...dia.com,
        ozsh@...dia.com, ahleihel@...dia.com,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/sched: act_ct: enable stats for HW
 offloaded entries

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 06:00:32PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:40:49 -0300 Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> > By setting NF_FLOWTABLE_COUNTER. Otherwise, the updates added by
> > commit ef803b3cf96a ("netfilter: flowtable: add counter support in HW
> > offload") are not effective when using act_ct.
> > 
> > While at it, now that we have the flag set, protect the call to
> > nf_ct_acct_update() by commit beb97d3a3192 ("net/sched: act_ct: update
> > nf_conn_acct for act_ct SW offload in flowtable") with the check on
> > NF_FLOWTABLE_COUNTER, as also done on other places.
> > 
> > Note that this shouldn't impact performance as these stats are only
> > enabled when net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct is enabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
> 
> Why no Fixes tag and not targeting net here?

Well, I don't know if it was left out on purpose or not/missed.
What I know is that act_ct initially had no support for stats of
offloaded entries. ef803b3cf96a wasn't specific to act_ct (and didn't
have to update it), while some support on act_ct was introduced with
beb97d3a3192, but only for sw offload. So it seems to me that it's
just a new piece(/incremental development) that nobody had cared so
far.

If you see it otherwise, I'm happy to change. I'll just need a hint on
which commit I should use for the Fixes tag (as it's not clear to me,
per above).