On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 03:55:53PM +0300, Roi Dayan wrote:
>
>
> On 2020-07-28 5:42 PM, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> As you said, in flow_offload_add() we adjust the flow timeout.
> Here we adjust the conn timeout.
> So it's outside flow_offload_add() which only touch the flow struct.
> I guess it's like conn offload bit is set outside here and for nft.
Right, but
> What do you think?
I don't see why it can't update both. flow_offload_fixup_ct_timeout(),
called by flow_offload_del(), is updating ct->timeout already. It
looks consistent to me to update it in _add as well then.
>
> >> return;
> >>
> >> err_add:
> >> --
> >> 2.8.4
> >>
