netfilter: add a xt_FLOWOFFLOAD target for NAT/routing offload support

This makes it possible to add an iptables rule that offloads routing/NAT
packet processing to a software fast path. This fast path is much
quicker than running packets through the regular tables/chains.

Requires Linux 4.14

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
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Felix Fietkau
2018-02-20 15:58:42 +01:00
parent 1033356442
commit 820f030998
4 changed files with 479 additions and 1 deletions

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+#include <xtables.h>
+
+static struct xtables_target offload_tg_reg[] = {
+ {
+ .family = NFPROTO_UNSPEC,
+ .name = "FLOWOFFLOAD",
+ .revision = 0,
+ .version = XTABLES_VERSION,
+ },
+};
+
+void _init(void)
+{
+ xtables_register_targets(offload_tg_reg, ARRAY_SIZE(offload_tg_reg));
+}