netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/3] make skip

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Message-ID: <20240311134435.19393f98@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:44:35 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
 <ast@...erby.net>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>, Cong Wang
 <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Daniel Borkmann
 <daniel@...earbox.net>, Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...dia.com>, Marcelo Ricardo
 Leitner <mleitner@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, llu@...erby.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/3] make skip_sw actually skip software

On Wed,  6 Mar 2024 16:58:08 +0000 Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen wrote:
> During development of flower-route[1], which I
> recently presented at FOSDEM[2], I noticed that
> CPU usage, would increase the more rules I installed
> into the hardware for IP forwarding offloading.
> 
> Since we use TC flower offload for the hottest
> prefixes, and leave the long tail to the normal (non-TC)
> Linux network stack for slow-path IP forwarding.
> We therefore need both the hardware and software
> datapath to perform well.
> 
> I found that skip_sw rules, are quite expensive
> in the kernel datapath, since they must be evaluated
> and matched upon, before the kernel checks the
> skip_sw flag.
> 
> This patchset optimizes the case where all rules
> are skip_sw, by implementing a TC bypass for these
> cases, where TC is only used as a control plane
> for the hardware path.

Linus tagged v6.8 and the merge window for v6.9 has started.
This feels a bit too risky for me to apply last minute,
could you repost in 2 weeks once the merge window is over?
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