[PATCH net-next v6 0/3] net sched actions: improve dump performance

[Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>]

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>

Changes since v5:
----------------

0)
Remove use of BIT() because it is kernel specific. Requires a separate
patch (Jiri can submit that in his cleanups)

1)To paraphrase Eric D.

"memcpy(nla_data(count_attr), &cb->args[1], sizeof(u32));
wont work on 64bit BE machines because cb->args[1]
(which is 64 bit is larger in size than sizeof(u32))"

Fixed

2) Jiri Pirko

i) Spotted a bug fix mixed in the patch for wrong TLV
fix. Add patch 1/3 to address this. Make part of this
series because of dependencies.

ii) Rename ACT_LARGE_DUMP_ON -> TCA_FLAG_LARGE_DUMP_ON

iii) Satisfy Jiri's obsession against the noun "tcaa"
a)Rename struct nlattr *tcaa --> struct nlattr *tb
b)Rename TCAA_ACT_XXX -> TCA_ROOT_XXX

Changes since v4:
-----------------

1) Eric D.

pointed out that when all skb space is used up by the dump
there will be no space to insert the TCAA_ACT_COUNT attribute.

2) Jiri:

i) Change:

enum {
        TCAA_UNSPEC,
        TCAA_ACT_TAB,
        TCAA_ACT_FLAGS,
        TCAA_ACT_COUNT,
        TCAA_ACT_TIME_FILTER,
        __TCAA_MAX
};

#define TCAA_MAX (__TCAA_MAX - 1)
#define ACT_LARGE_DUMP_ON               (1 << 0)

to:
enum {
       TCAA_UNSPEC,
       TCAA_ACT_TAB,
#define TCA_ACT_TAB TCAA_ACT_TAB
       TCAA_ACT_FLAGS,
       TCAA_ACT_COUNT,
       __TCAA_MAX,
#define        TCAA_MAX (__TCAA_MAX - 1)
};

#define ACT_LARGE_DUMP_ON              BIT(0)

Jiri plans to followup with the rest of the code to make the
style consistent.

ii) Rename attribute TCAA_ACT_TIME_FILTER --> TCAA_ACT_TIME_DELTA

iii) Rename variable jiffy_filter --> jiffy_since
iv) Rename msecs_filter --> msecs_since
v) get rid of unused cb->args[0] and rename cb->args[4] to cb->args[0]

Jamal Hadi Salim (3):
  net sched actions: User proper root attribute table for actions
  net sched actions: dump more than TCA_ACT_MAX_PRIO actions per batch
  net sched actions: add time filter for action dumping

 include/uapi/linux/rtnetlink.h | 22 ++++++++++++--
 net/sched/act_api.c            | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

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