netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2 2/6] bnxt_en: do not allow wildcard matches for L2 flows

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Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:50:14 -0400
From:   Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com>
To:     Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Cc:     Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 2/6] bnxt_en: do not allow wildcard matches for L2
 flows

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 01:41:31PM -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 1:31 PM, Andy Gospodarek
> <andrew.gospodarek@...adcom.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:43:14AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> >> On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:50:14 -0400, Michael Chan wrote:
> >> > @@ -764,6 +788,41 @@ static bool bnxt_tc_can_offload(struct bnxt *bp, struct bnxt_tc_flow *flow)
> >> >             return false;
> >> >     }
> >> >
> >> > +   /* Currently source/dest MAC cannot be partial wildcard  */
> >> > +   if (bits_set(&flow->l2_key.smac, sizeof(flow->l2_key.smac)) &&
> >> > +       !is_exactmatch(flow->l2_mask.smac, sizeof(flow->l2_mask.smac))) {
> >> > +           netdev_info(bp->dev, "Wildcard match unsupported for Source MAC\n");
> >>
> >> This wouldn't be something to do in net, but how do you feel about
> >> using extack for messages like this?
> >>
> >
> > I agree 'net' would not have been the place for a change like that, but
> > I do think that would be a good idea.  It looks like we could easily
> > change the ndo_setup_tc to something like this:
> >
> >         int                     (*ndo_setup_tc)(struct net_device *dev,
> >                                                 enum tc_setup_type type,
> >                                                 void *type_data,
> >                                                 struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
> 
> I think the extack pointer is already in the tc_cls_common_offload
> struct inside tc_cls_flower_offload struct.

True, but I'm not sure that tc_cls_common_offload is used in all cases.
Take red_offload() as one of those.