netfilter: flowtable: dedicated slab for flow entry

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The size of `struct flow_offload` has grown beyond 256 bytes on 64-bit
kernels (currently 280 bytes) because of the `flow_offload_tunnel`
member added recently. So kmalloc() allocates from the kmalloc-512 slab,
causing significant memory waste per entry.

Introduce a dedicated slab cache for flow entries to reduce memory
footprint. Results in a reduction from 512 bytes to 320 bytes per entry
on x86_64 kernels.

Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng <dqfext@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

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Qingfang Deng 2026-01-30 15:22:07 +08:00 • committed by Florian Westphal

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