Re: [PATCH net-next 06/11] netfilter: nf_flow_table: count and limit hw offloaded entries

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 19 May 2022 16:11:36 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2022 00:02:01 +0200 Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > To improve hardware offload debuggability and scalability introduce
> > 'nf_flowtable_count_hw' and 'nf_flowtable_max_hw' sysctl entries in new
> > dedicated 'net/netfilter/ft' namespace. Add new pernet struct nf_ft_net in
> > order to store the counter and sysctl header of new sysctl table.
> > 
> > Count the offloaded flows in workqueue add task handler. Verify that
> > offloaded flow total is lower than allowed maximum before calling the
> > driver callbacks. To prevent spamming the 'add' workqueue with tasks when
> > flows can't be offloaded anymore also check that count is below limit
> > before queuing offload work. This doesn't prevent all redundant workqueue
> > task since counter can be taken by concurrent work handler after the check
> > had been performed but before the offload job is executed but it still
> > greatly reduces such occurrences. Note that flows that were not offloaded
> > due to counter being larger than the cap can still be offloaded via refresh
> > function.
> > 
> > Ensure that flows are accounted correctly by verifying IPS_HW_OFFLOAD_BIT
> > value before counting them. This ensures that add/refresh code path
> > increments the counter exactly once per flow when setting the bit and
> > decrements it only for accounted flows when deleting the flow with the bit
> > set.  
> 
> Why a sysctl and not a netlink attr per table or per device?

Let me do something unorthodox and pull just the first 4 patches 
for now so the warning goes away...