Hi Marcelo, On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 03:09:51PM -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 05:11:47PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: [...] > > Or probably make the cookie unique is sufficient? The cookie refers to > > the memory address but memory can be recycled very quickly. If the > > cookie helps to catch the reorder scenario, then the conntrack id > > could be used instead of the memory address as cookie. > > Something like this, if I got the idea right, would be even better. If > the entry actually expired before it had a chance of being offloaded, > there is no point in offloading it to then just remove it.
It would be interesting to explore this idea you describe. Maybe a flag can be set on stale objects, or simply remove the stale object from the offload queue. So I guess it should be possible to recover control on the list of pending requests as a batch that is passed through one single queue_work call.
