From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:30:41 +0200

This series is aimed at improving the act_mirred redirect performances.
Such action is used by OVS to represent TC S/W flows, and it's current largest
bottle-neck is the need for a skb_clone() for each packet.

The first 2 patches introduce some cleanup and safeguards to allow extending 
tca_result - we will use it to store RCU protected redirect information - and
introduce a clear separation between user-space accessible tcfa_action
values and internal values accessible only by the kernel.
Then a new tcfa_action value is introduced: TC_ACT_REINJECT, similar to
TC_ACT_REDIRECT, but preserving the mirred semantic. Such value is not
accessible from user-space.
The last patch exploits the newly introduced infrastructure in the act_mirred
action, to avoid a skb_clone, when possible.

Overall this the above gives a ~10% performance improvement in forwarding tput,
when using the TC S/W datapath.

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Series applied, thank you.