netdev - [PATCH net-next v3 4/7] netfilter: flowtable: allow updating offloaded rules asynchronously

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Date:   Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:51:01 +0100
From:   Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...dia.com>
To:     <davem@...emloft.net>, <kuba@...nel.org>, <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        <pablo@...filter.org>
CC:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <jhs@...atatu.com>, <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        <ozsh@...dia.com>, <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        <simon.horman@...igine.com>, Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v3 4/7] netfilter: flowtable: allow updating offloaded rules asynchronously

Following patches in series need to update flowtable rule several times
during its lifetime in order to synchronize hardware offload with actual ct
status. However, reusing existing 'refresh' logic in act_ct would cause
data path to potentially schedule significant amount of spurious tasks in
'add' workqueue since it is executed per-packet. Instead, introduce a new
flow 'update' flag and use it to schedule async flow refresh in flowtable
gc which will only be executed once per gc iteration.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...dia.com>
---
 include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h |  3 ++-
 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c    | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_offload.c |  5 +++--
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h
index 88ab98ab41d9..e396424e2e68 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ enum nf_flow_flags {
 	NF_FLOW_HW_DEAD,
 	NF_FLOW_HW_PENDING,
 	NF_FLOW_HW_BIDIRECTIONAL,
+	NF_FLOW_HW_UPDATE,
 };
 
 enum flow_offload_type {
@@ -300,7 +301,7 @@ unsigned int nf_flow_offload_ipv6_hook(void *priv, struct sk_buff *skb,
 #define MODULE_ALIAS_NF_FLOWTABLE(family)	\
 	MODULE_ALIAS("nf-flowtable-" __stringify(family))
 
-void nf_flow_offload_add(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable,
+bool nf_flow_offload_add(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable,
 			 struct flow_offload *flow);
 void nf_flow_offload_del(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable,
 			 struct flow_offload *flow);
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
index 04bd0ed4d2ae..5b495e768655 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
@@ -316,21 +316,28 @@ int flow_offload_add(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table, struct flow_offload *flow)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flow_offload_add);
 
+static bool __flow_offload_refresh(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table,
+				   struct flow_offload *flow)
+{
+	if (likely(!nf_flowtable_hw_offload(flow_table)))
+		return true;
+
+	return nf_flow_offload_add(flow_table, flow);
+}
+
 void flow_offload_refresh(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table,
 			  struct flow_offload *flow)
 {
 	u32 timeout;
 
 	timeout = nf_flowtable_time_stamp + flow_offload_get_timeout(flow);
-	if (timeout - READ_ONCE(flow->timeout) > HZ)
+	if (timeout - READ_ONCE(flow->timeout) > HZ &&
+	    !test_bit(NF_FLOW_HW_UPDATE, &flow->flags))
 		WRITE_ONCE(flow->timeout, timeout);
 	else
 		return;
 
-	if (likely(!nf_flowtable_hw_offload(flow_table)))
-		return;
-
-	nf_flow_offload_add(flow_table, flow);
+	__flow_offload_refresh(flow_table, flow);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flow_offload_refresh);
 
@@ -435,6 +442,9 @@ static void nf_flow_offload_gc_step(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table,
 		} else {
 			flow_offload_del(flow_table, flow);
 		}
+	} else if (test_and_clear_bit(NF_FLOW_HW_UPDATE, &flow->flags)) {
+		if (!__flow_offload_refresh(flow_table, flow))
+			set_bit(NF_FLOW_HW_UPDATE, &flow->flags);
 	} else if (test_bit(NF_FLOW_HW, &flow->flags)) {
 		nf_flow_offload_stats(flow_table, flow);
 	}
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_offload.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_offload.c
index 8b852f10fab4..103b2ca8d123 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_offload.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_offload.c
@@ -1036,16 +1036,17 @@ nf_flow_offload_work_alloc(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable,
 }
 
 
-void nf_flow_offload_add(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable,
+bool nf_flow_offload_add(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable,
 			 struct flow_offload *flow)
 {
 	struct flow_offload_work *offload;
 
 	offload = nf_flow_offload_work_alloc(flowtable, flow, FLOW_CLS_REPLACE);
 	if (!offload)
-		return;
+		return false;
 
 	flow_offload_queue_work(offload);
+	return true;
 }
 
 void nf_flow_offload_del(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable,
-- 
2.38.1