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This patch adds the dataplane hardware offload to the flowtable infrastructure. Three new flags represent the hardware state of this flow: * FLOW_OFFLOAD_HW: This flow entry resides in the hardware. * FLOW_OFFLOAD_HW_DYING: This flow entry has been scheduled to be remove from hardware. This might be triggered by either packet path (via TCP RST/FIN packet) or via aging. * FLOW_OFFLOAD_HW_DEAD: This flow entry has been already removed from the hardware, the software garbage collector can remove it from the software flowtable. This patch supports for: * IPv4 only. * Aging via FLOW_CLS_STATS, no packet and byte counter synchronization at this stage. This patch also adds the action callback that specifies how to convert the flow entry into the flow_rule object that is passed to the driver. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.