From: Qingfang Deng <dqfext@gmail.com>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
edumazet@google.com, fw@strlen.de, horms@kernel.org,
steffen.klassert@secunet.com, antony.antony@secunet.com,
Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next,RFC 0/8] netfilter: flowtable bulking
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:15:17 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260319061520.356946-1-dqfext@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260317112917.4170466-1-pablo@netfilter.org>
Hi Pablo,
On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:29:09 +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Back in 2018 [1], a new fast forwarding combining the flowtable and
> GRO/GSO was proposed, however, "GRO is specialized to optimize the
> non-forwarding case", so it was considered "counter-intuitive to base a
> fast forwarding path on top of it".
>
> Then, Steffen Klassert proposed the idea of adding a new engine for the
> flowtable that operates on the skb list that is provided after the NAPI
> cycle. The idea is to process this skb list to create bulks grouped by
> the ethertype, output device, next hop and tos/dscp. Then, add a
> specialized xmit path that can deal with these skb bulks. Note that GRO
> needs to be disabled so this new forwarding engine obtains the list of
> skbs that resulted from the NAPI cycle.
+Cc: Felix Fietkau
How does this compare to fraglist GRO with the original flowtable?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-19 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-17 11:29 [PATCH net-next,RFC 0/8] netfilter: flowtable bulking Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-03-17 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next,RFC 1/8] netfilter: flowtable: Add basic bulking infrastructure for early ingress hook Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-03-17 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next,RFC 2/8] netfilter: flowtable: Add IPv6 " Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-03-17 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next,RFC 3/8] netfilter: nf_tables: add flowtable early_ingress support Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-03-17 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next,RFC 4/8] netfilter: nf_tables: add nft_set_pktinfo_ingress() Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-03-17 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next,RFC 5/8] netfilter: nf_tables: add early ingress chain Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-03-17 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next,RFC 6/8] net: add dev_dst_drop() helper function Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-03-17 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next,RFC 7/8] net: add dev_noqueue_xmit_list() " Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-03-17 11:29 ` [PATCH net-next,RFC 8/8] net: add dev_queue_xmit_list() and use it Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-03-17 11:39 ` [PATCH net-next,RFC 0/8] netfilter: flowtable bulking Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-03-19 6:15 ` Qingfang Deng [this message]
2026-03-19 11:28 ` Steffen Klassert
2026-03-19 12:18 ` Felix Fietkau
2026-03-20 6:49 ` Steffen Klassert
2026-03-20 8:50 ` Felix Fietkau
2026-03-20 9:00 ` Steffen Klassert
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