If a flow cannot be offloaded, the code currently repeatedly tries again as quickly as possible, which can significantly increase system load. Fix this by limiting flow timeout update and hardware offload retry to once per second. Fixes: c07531c01d82 ("netfilter: flowtable: Remove redundant hw refresh bit") Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c index 3db256da919b..20b4a14e5d4e 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c @@ -335,8 +335,10 @@ void flow_offload_refresh(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table, u32 timeout; timeout = nf_flowtable_time_stamp + flow_offload_get_timeout(flow); - if (READ_ONCE(flow->timeout) != timeout) + if (timeout - READ_ONCE(flow->timeout) > HZ) WRITE_ONCE(flow->timeout, timeout); + else + return; if (likely(!nf_flowtable_hw_offload(flow_table))) return; -- 2.35.1