net/mlx5e: CT: Offload connections with hardware steering rules
This is modeled similar to how software steering works: - a reference-counted matcher is maintained for each combination of nat/no_nat x ipv4/ipv6 x tcp/udp/gre. - adding a rule involves finding+referencing or creating a corresponding matcher, then actually adding a rule. - updating rules is implemented using the bwc_rule update API, which can change a rule's actions without touching the match value. By using a T-Rex traffic generator to initiate multi-million UDP flows per second, a kernel running with these patches on the RX side was able to offload ~600K flows per second, which is about ~7x larger than what software steering could do on the same hardware (256-thread AMD EPYC, 512 GB RAM, ConnectX-7 b2b). Signed-off-by:Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by:
Jianbo Liu <jianbol@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by:
Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250114130646.1937192-5-tariqt@nvidia.com Signed-off-by:
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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