CC'ing to Gaetan, Paolo, and Eelco. They're in the 'git send-email' command and the output of the send, but for some reason they aren't added in my mail client (at least when viewing) ex::
Result: 250 OK. Log says: Server: ############### MAIL FROM:<[email protected]> RCPT TO:<[email protected]> RCPT TO:<[email protected]> RCPT TO:<[email protected]> RCPT TO:<[email protected]> RCPT TO:<[email protected]> RCPT TO:<[email protected]> RCPT TO:<[email protected]> From: Aaron Conole <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]>, Eli Britstein <[email protected]>, Gaetan Rivet <[email protected]>, Paolo Valerio <[email protected]>, Florian Westphal <[email protected]>, Flavio Leitner <[email protected]> Subject: [PATCH 12/12] Documentation: Announce and describe the conntrack offload feature. Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 13:13:36 -0400 Message-ID: <[email protected]> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.51.0 In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Result: 250 Aaron Conole via dev <[email protected]> writes: > This series reworks the userspace connection tracker in Open vSwitch in > order to introduce an infrastructure that future offload providers could > use to offload connections, similar to facilities provided in the TC offload > path. The goal is to enable userspace datapath offloads to provide > additional connection tracking offload support. > > The early patches do a slight rework of the existing connection tracker to > prepare for the offload to be added. These are just split-outs and renames > to make things clearer. > > Patches 5-10 are the meat of the offload infrastructure. They provide the > basic support - add/del/est/update primitives that give enough context into > the userspace connection tracking layers to actually inform the hardware and > keep the userspace updated. Additionally, we automatically disable tcp > sequence number checking on connections that are 'offloaded'. > > Patch 11 shows a dummy offload implementation and some unit tests. > > Patch 12 is just documentation / NEWS. > > This was originally submitted as RFC, and changes since then: > > 1. Addressed various freebsd / compiler incompatibilities > 2. Addressed an issue of calling offload conn_del in the conn_clean case > gated on the wrong thing (configuration vs. offload status) [Paolo V.] > > Aaron Conole (12): > conntrack: Add per-conn storage for conntrack modules. > conntrack: Introduce an observer pattern infrastructure as a hook. > conntrack: Split the FTP and TFTP handling into separate files. > conntrack-tcp: Convert to using the per-conn storage area. > ct-offload: Add a new interface as an offload provider. > ct-offload: Add batching support. > ct-offload: Add a mark for offloaded connections. > conntrack: Add calls to ct-offload infrastructure. > ct-offload: Add configuration infrastructure. > conntrack: Propagate input netdev pointer to conntrack. > ct-offload-dummy: Introduce dummy ct offload. > Documentation: Announce and describe the conntrack offload feature. > > Documentation/automake.mk | 1 + > Documentation/topics/index.rst | 1 + > .../topics/userspace-conntrack-offloading.rst | 76 ++ > NEWS | 1 + > lib/automake.mk | 7 + > lib/conntrack-ftp.c | 689 +++++++++++++ > lib/conntrack-private.h | 123 +++ > lib/conntrack-tcp.c | 72 +- > lib/conntrack-tcp.h | 61 ++ > lib/conntrack-tftp.c | 47 + > lib/conntrack.c | 904 ++++-------------- > lib/conntrack.h | 44 +- > lib/ct-offload-dummy.c | 253 +++++ > lib/ct-offload-dummy.h | 64 ++ > lib/ct-offload.c | 603 ++++++++++++ > lib/ct-offload.h | 177 ++++ > lib/dpif-netdev.c | 14 +- > lib/dpif-offload.c | 13 + > lib/dpif-offload.h | 1 + > tests/dpif-netdev.at | 72 ++ > tests/library.at | 54 ++ > tests/test-conntrack.c | 460 ++++++++- > vswitchd/bridge.c | 4 + > 23 files changed, 2974 insertions(+), 767 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 Documentation/topics/userspace-conntrack-offloading.rst > create mode 100644 lib/conntrack-ftp.c > create mode 100644 lib/conntrack-tcp.h > create mode 100644 lib/conntrack-tftp.c > create mode 100644 lib/ct-offload-dummy.c > create mode 100644 lib/ct-offload-dummy.h > create mode 100644 lib/ct-offload.c > create mode 100644 lib/ct-offload.h _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
