[Cake] Fwd: [PATCH net-next v5 0/4] TC: refactor act_mirred packets re-injection

[Dave Taht]

I hope this shows up as an inbound shaping improvement for us.
skb_clone was *expensive*

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From: David Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Date: Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 9:32 AM
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/4] TC: refactor act_mirred packets
re-injection
To: <pabeni at redhat.com>
Cc: <netdev at vger.kernel.org>, <jhs at mojatatu.com>,
<xiyou.wangcong at gmail.com>, <jiri at resnulli.us>,
<daniel at iogearbox.net>, <marcelo.leitner at gmail.com>,
<eyal.birger at gmail.com>


From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.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.


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