On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 02:59:53PM +0200, Oz Shlomo wrote: > 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.
I'm going to apply this to nf-next, it should be possible to revisit this problem incrementally. Applied, thanks for your patience.
