netdev - Re: [patch net-next repost] net: sched: add helpers to handle extended actions

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Date:   Tue, 2 May 2017 14:07:54 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next repost] net: sched: add helpers to handle
 extended actions

Tue, May 02, 2017 at 01:59:20PM CEST, jhs@...atatu.com wrote:
>On 17-05-02 04:12 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
>> 
>> Jump is now the only one using value action opcode. This is going to
>> change soon. So introduce helpers to work with this. Convert TC_ACT_JUMP.
>> 
>> This also fixes the TC_ACT_JUMP check, which is incorrectly done as a
>> bit check, not a value check.
>> 
>> Fixes: e0ee84ded796 ("net sched actions: Complete the JUMPX opcode")
>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
>> ---
>> Dave, I'm sending this for -net-next although I know it is closed. But
>> the mentioned commit is not yet in -net. Feel free to take this either
>> to -net-next or -net, whatever suits you better. Thanks.
>
>I think you are pushing the boundary a little calling it a bug fix

Well, it is a bugfix. Otherwise we could not use bit 1 for anything else
then jump in the future. This is also UAPI. That's why I'm pushing it as
a fix.

>and this could go with your patch series instead.
>The name TC_ACT_EXT_CMP should be TC_ACT_EXT_CMP_OPCODE

I was thinking about it as well, I would like to keep it shorter. The
current name is quite appropriate and it is clear what the macro does.


>Other than that:
>
>Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
 
Thanks.