netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] Enable SW only or HW only offloads with u32 classifier

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Date:	Mon, 16 May 2016 13:31:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sridhar.samudrala@...el.com
Cc:	john.r.fastabend@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] Enable SW only or HW only offloads
 with u32 classifier 

From: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 17:08:21 -0700

> This set of patches export TCA_CLS_FLAGS_SKIP_HW to userspace and also
> introduces another flag TCA_CLS_FLAGS_SKIP_SW. These flags enable offloading 
> u32 filters to either SW or HW only.
> 
> The default semantics with no flags is to add the filter to HW if possible and
> also into SW. 
> With SKIP_HW flag, the filter is only added to SW.
> With SKIP_SW flag, the filter is added to HW and an error is returned
> to user on failure.
> These flags are mutually exclusive.
> There was an earlier discussion on these semantics in the following email
> thread.
> 	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/401733

Series applied, thanks.