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net/mlx5e: Update neighbour 'used' state using HW flow rules counters
When IP tunnel encapsulation rules are offloaded, the kernel can't see the traffic of the offloaded flow. The neighbour for the IP tunnel destination of the offloaded flow can mistakenly become STALE and deleted by the kernel since its 'used' value wasn't changed. To make sure that a neighbour which is used by the HW won't become STALE, we proactively update the neighbour 'used' value every DELAY_PROBE_TIME period, when packets were matched and counted by the HW for one of the tunnel encap flows related to this neighbour. The periodic task that updates the used neighbours is scheduled when a tunnel encap rule is successfully offloaded into HW and keeps re-scheduling itself as long as the representor's neighbours list isn't empty. Add, remove, lookup and status change operations done over the representor's neighbours list or the neighbour hash entry encaps list are all serialized by RTNL lock. Signed-off-by: Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
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