On 9 March 2016 at 15:10, Jarno Rajahalme <ja...@ovn.org> wrote: > Add a new function ovs_ct_find_existing() to find an existing > conntrack entry for which this packet was already applied to. This is > only to be called when there is evidence that the packet was already > tracked and committed, but we lost the ct reference due to an > userspace upcall. > > ovs_ct_find_existing() is called from skb_nfct_cached(), which can now > hide the fact that the ct reference may have been lost due to an > upcall. This allows ovs_ct_commit() to be simplified. > > This patch is needed by later "openvswitch: Interface with NAT" patch, > as we need to be able to pass the packet through NAT using the > original ct reference also after the reference is lost after an > upcall. > > Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <ja...@ovn.org>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org>
