netdev - Re: [PATCH nf-next v7 0/3] Add IPIP flowtable SW acceleration

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Message-ID: <aPi7haYp3pWqM0oW@calendula>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:09:57 +0200
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...filter.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	coreteam@...filter.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next v7 0/3] Add IPIP flowtable SW acceleration

Hi Lorenzo,

On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 07:48:17PM +0200, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> Introduce SW acceleration for IPIP tunnels in the netfilter flowtable
> infrastructure. This series introduces basic infrastructure to
> accelerate other tunnel types (e.g. IP6IP6).

Would you be so kind to rebase this series on top of:

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netfilter-devel/list/?series=477081

That series should simplify the integration of your IPIP support.

Thanks.

> ---
> Changes in v7:
> - Introduce sw acceleration for tx path of IPIP tunnels
> - Rely on exact match during flowtable entry lookup
> - Fix typos
> - Link to v6: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250818-nf-flowtable-ipip-v6-0-eda90442739c@kernel.org
> 
> Changes in v6:
> - Rebase on top of nf-next main branch
> - Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250721-nf-flowtable-ipip-v5-0-0865af9e58c6@kernel.org
> 
> Changes in v5:
> - Rely on __ipv4_addr_hash() to compute the hash used as encap ID
> - Remove unnecessary pskb_may_pull() in nf_flow_tuple_encap()
> - Add nf_flow_ip4_ecanp_pop utility routine
> - Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250718-nf-flowtable-ipip-v4-0-f8bb1c18b986@kernel.org
> 
> Changes in v4:
> - Use the hash value of the saddr, daddr and protocol of outer IP header as
>   encapsulation id.
> - Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250703-nf-flowtable-ipip-v3-0-880afd319b9f@kernel.org
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - Add outer IP header sanity checks
> - target nf-next tree instead of net-next
> - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250627-nf-flowtable-ipip-v2-0-c713003ce75b@kernel.org
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Introduce IPIP flowtable selftest
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250623-nf-flowtable-ipip-v1-1-2853596e3941@kernel.org
> 
> ---
> Lorenzo Bianconi (3):
>       net: netfilter: Add IPIP flowtable rx sw acceleration
>       net: netfilter: Add IPIP flowtable tx sw acceleration
>       selftests: netfilter: nft_flowtable.sh: Add IPIP flowtable selftest
> 
>  include/linux/netdevice.h                          |  16 +++
>  include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h              |  26 +++++
>  net/ipv4/ipip.c                                    |  29 +++++
>  net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c                 |  10 ++
>  net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c                   | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>  net/netfilter/nft_flow_offload.c                   |  79 ++++++++++++--
>  .../selftests/net/netfilter/nft_flowtable.sh       |  40 +++++++
>  7 files changed, 307 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: d1d7998df9d7d3ee20bcfc876065fa897b11506d
> change-id: 20250623-nf-flowtable-ipip-1b3d7b08d067
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>
>