Prior to this change the correct value for the used counter is calculated but not stored nor, therefore, propagated to user-space. In use-cases such as OVS use-case at least this results in active flows being removed from the hardware datapath. Which results in both unnecessary flow tear-down and setup, and packet processing on the host. This patch addresses the problem by saving the calculated used value which allows the value to propagate to user-space. Found by inspection. Fixes: aa6ce2ea0c93 ("nfp: flower: support stats update for merge flows") Signed-off-by: Heinrich Kuhn <heinrich.kuhn@netronome.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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