net/mlx5e: Use a slow path rule instead if vxlan neighbour isn't available
When adding a vxlan tc rule, and a neighbour isn't available, we don't insert any rule to hardware. Once we enable offloading flows with multiple priorities, a packet that should have matched this rule will continue in hardware pipeline and might match a wrong one. This is unlike in tc software path where it will be matched and forwarded to the vxlan device (which will cause a ARP lookup eventually) and stop processing further tc filters. To address that, when when a neighbour isn't available (EAGAIN from attach_encap), or gets deleted, change the original action to be a forward to slow path instead. Neighbour update will restore the original action once the neighbour becomes available. This will be done atomically so at any given time we will have a the correct match. Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey <paulb@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
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