Commit aa376427 authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by David S. Miller

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>
parent 13df433f
......@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ Contents:
netfilter-sysctl
netif-msg
nf_conntrack-sysctl
nf_flowtable
.. only:: subproject and html
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
====================================
Netfilter's flowtable infrastructure
====================================
......@@ -31,6 +34,8 @@ to use this new alternative forwarding path via nftables policy.
This is represented in Fig.1, which describes the classic forwarding path
including the Netfilter hooks and the flowtable fastpath bypass.
::
userspace process
^ |
| |
......@@ -72,7 +77,7 @@ Example configuration
---------------------
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 {
......@@ -101,12 +106,12 @@ forwarding bypass.
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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