Commit aa376427 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by David S. Miller
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docs: networking: convert nf_flowtable.txt to ReST 



- add SPDX header;
- adjust title markup;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- add notes markups;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines;
- add to networking/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Documentation/networking/index.rst

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   netfilter-sysctl

   netif-msg

   nf_conntrack-sysctl

   nf_flowtable



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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0



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Netfilter's flowtable infrastructure

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This is represented in Fig.1, which describes the classic forwarding path

including the Netfilter hooks and the flowtable fastpath bypass.



::



					 userspace process

					  ^              |

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---------------------



Enabling the flowtable bypass is relatively easy, you only need to create a

flowtable and add one rule to your forward chain.

flowtable and add one rule to your forward chain::



	table inet x {

		flowtable f {
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More reading

------------



This documentation is based on the LWN.net articles [1][2]. Rafal Milecki also

made a very complete and comprehensive summary called "A state of network

This documentation is based on the LWN.net articles [1]_\ [2]_. Rafal Milecki

also made a very complete and comprehensive summary called "A state of network

acceleration" that describes how things were before this infrastructure was

mailined [3] and it also makes a rough summary of this work [4].

mailined [3]_ and it also makes a rough summary of this work [4]_.



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/738214/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/742164/

[3] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2018-January/010830.html

[4] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2018-January/010829.html
 
.. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/738214/

.. [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/742164/

.. [3] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2018-January/010830.html

.. [4] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2018-January/010829.html

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