netfilter: nf_tables: add register tracking infrastructure

This patch adds new infrastructure to skip redundant selector store
operations on the same register to achieve a performance boost from
the packet path.

This is particularly noticeable in pure linear rulesets but it also
helps in rulesets which are already heaving relying in maps to avoid
ruleset linear inspection.

The idea is to keep data of the most recurrent store operations on
register to reuse them with cmp and lookup expressions.

This infrastructure allows for dynamic ruleset updates since the ruleset
blob reduction happens from the kernel.

Userspace still needs to be updated to maximize register utilization to
cooperate to improve register data reuse / reduce number of store on
register operations.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
index 515e5db97e01..1c37ce61daea 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h
@@ -122,6 +122,16 @@ struct nft_regs {
 	};
 };
 
+struct nft_regs_track {
+	struct {
+		const struct nft_expr		*selector;
+		const struct nft_expr		*bitwise;
+	} regs[NFT_REG32_NUM];
+
+	const struct nft_expr			*cur;
+	const struct nft_expr			*last;
+};
+
 /* Store/load an u8, u16 or u64 integer to/from the u32 data register.
  *
  * Note, when using concatenations, register allocation happens at 32-bit
@@ -886,6 +896,8 @@ struct nft_expr_ops {
 	int				(*validate)(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
 						    const struct nft_expr *expr,
 						    const struct nft_data **data);
+	bool				(*reduce)(struct nft_regs_track *track,
+						  const struct nft_expr *expr);
 	bool				(*gc)(struct net *net,
 					      const struct nft_expr *expr);
 	int				(*offload)(struct nft_offload_ctx *ctx,