On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 02:57:59PM +0300, Roi Dayan wrote:
> On heavily loaded systems the GC can take time to go over all existing
> conns and reset their timeout. At that time other calls like from
> nf_conntrack_in() can call of nf_ct_is_expired() and see the conn as
> expired. To fix this when we set the offload bit we should also reset
> the timeout instead of counting on GC to finish first iteration over
> all conns before the initial timeout.
>
> Fixes: 64ff70b80fd4 ("net/sched: act_ct: Offload established connections to
> flow table")
> Signed-off-by: Roi Dayan <r...@mellanox.com>
> Reviewed-by: Oz Shlomo <o...@mellanox.com>
> ---
> net/sched/act_ct.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/sched/act_ct.c b/net/sched/act_ct.c
> index e9f3576cbf71..650c2d78a346 100644
> --- a/net/sched/act_ct.c
> +++ b/net/sched/act_ct.c
> @@ -366,6 +366,8 @@ static void tcf_ct_flow_table_add(struct
> tcf_ct_flow_table *ct_ft,
Extra context line:
err = flow_offload_add(&ct_ft->nf_ft, entry);
> if (err)
> goto err_add;
>
> + nf_ct_offload_timeout(ct);
> +
What about adding this to flow_offload_add() instead?
It is already adjusting the flow_offload timeout there and then it
also effective for nft.
> return;
>
> err_add:
> --
> 2.8.4
>
