netfilter: flowtable: separate replace, destroy and stats to different workqueues
Currently the flow table offload replace, destroy and stats work items are executed on a single workqueue. As such, DESTROY and STATS commands may be backloged after a burst of REPLACE work items. This scenario can bloat up memory and may cause active connections to age. Instatiate add, del and stats workqueues to avoid backlogs of non-dependent actions. Provide sysfs control over the workqueue attributes, allowing userspace applications to control the workqueue cpumask. Signed-off-by: Oz Shlomo <ozsh@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Blakey <paulb@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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