netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 09/10] net/mlx4_en: Manage flow steering rules with ethtool

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Date:	Tue, 3 Jul 2012 02:50:52 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
CC:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <roland@...nel.org>,
	<yevgenyp@...lanox.com>, <oren@...lanox.com>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@...lanox.co.il>,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.co.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 09/10] net/mlx4_en: Manage flow steering rules
 with ethtool

On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 16:32 +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
[...]
> > Also, are the rules really prioritised by location, so that if rule 0
> > and 1 match a packet then only rule 0 is applied?  If they are actually
> > prioritised by the match type then you need to assign locations on the
> > driver side that reflect the actual priorities.
> 
> 
> Rules are prioritized by a scheme made of "domain" X location, see below 
> and in patch #6
> the MLX4_DOMAIN_yyy entries, higher domain value means lower priority, 
> so for instance rules
> placed by ethtool would have higher priority over rules added by the L2 
> NIC  or by future RFS
> patch. Within a domain, the location matters.
> 
> You can see that simple L2 rules (e.g contain dest-mac, possibly vlan) 
> added by the driver
> use the NIC domain, wheres those added to serve ethtool commands use the 
> ETHTOOL one.
> 
> Within the ethtool domain, we maintain the priority as the location 
> specified by the user, hope this explains
> things.
[...]

Good, I didn't read the other patches but just wanted to make sure you
had thought about this.

Ben

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