net: sched: cls_u32 add bit to specify software only rules
In the initial implementation the only way to stop a rule from being inserted into the hardware table was via the device feature flag. However this doesn't work well when working on an end host system where packets are expect to hit both the hardware and software datapaths. For example we can imagine a rule that will match an IP address and increment a field. If we install this rule in both hardware and software we may increment the field twice. To date we have only added support for the drop action so we have been able to ignore these cases. But as we extend the action support we will hit this example plus more such cases. Arguably these are not even corner cases in many working systems these cases will be common. To avoid forcing the driver to always abort (i.e. the above example) this patch adds a flag to add a rule in software only. A careful user can use this flag to build software and hardware datapaths that work together. One example we have found particularly useful is to use hardware resources to set the skb->mark on the skb when the match may be expensive to run in software but a mark lookup in a hash table is cheap. The idea here is hardware can do in one lookup what the u32 classifier may need to traverse multiple lists and hash tables to compute. The flag is only passed down on inserts. On deletion to avoid stale references in hardware we always try to remove a rule if it exists. The flags field is part of the classifier specific options. Although it is tempting to lift this into the generic structure doing this proves difficult do to how the tc netlink attributes are implemented along with how the dump/change routines are called. There is also precedence for putting seemingly generic pieces in the specific classifier options such as TCA_U32_POLICE, TCA_U32_ACT, etc. So although not ideal I've left FLAGS in the u32 options as well as it simplifies the code greatly and user space has already learned how to manage these bits ala 'tc' tool. Another thing if trying to update a rule we require the flags to be unchanged. This is to force user space, software u32 and the hardware u32 to keep in sync. Thanks to Simon Horman for catching this case. Signed-off-by:John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> Acked-by:
Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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