Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/2] vrf: run conntrack only in context of lower/physdev for locally generated packets

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On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 02:58:58PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If the motion for these hooks in the driver is to match for 'oif vrf',
> > now that there is an egress hook, it might make more sense to filter
> > from there based on the interface rather than adding these hook calls
> > from the vrf driver?
> > 
> > I wonder if, in the future, it makes sense to entirely disable these
> > hooks in the vrf driver and rely on egress hook?
> 
> Agree, it would be better to support ingress+egress hhoks from vrf
> so vrf specific filtering can be done per-device.
> 
> I don't think we can just remove the existing NF_HOOK()s in vrf though.

I understand, there are people relying on this.

> We could add toggles to disable them, but I'm not sure how to best
> expose that (ip link attribute, ethtool, sysctl ...)...?

I would make it global toggle. As you mentioned it might be good to
explore an alternative to this via the ingress+egress hooks now that
the usecases are better known?



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