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Commit e5cf1baf authored by Paolo Abeni's avatar Paolo Abeni Committed by David S. Miller
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act_mirred: use TC_ACT_REINSERT when possible



When mirred is invoked from the ingress path, and it wants to redirect
the processed packet, it can now use the TC_ACT_REINSERT action,
filling the tcf_result accordingly, and avoiding a per packet
skb_clone().

Overall this gives a ~10% improvement in forwarding performance for the
TC S/W data path and TC S/W performances are now comparable to the
kernel openvswitch datapath.

v1 -> v2: use ACT_MIRRED instead of ACT_REDIRECT
v2 -> v3: updated after action rename, fixed typo into the commit
	message
v3 -> v4: updated again after action rename, added more comments to
	the code (JiriP), skip the optimization if the control action
	need to touch the tcf_result (Paolo)
v4 -> v5: fix sparse warning (kbuild bot)

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent cd11b164
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