netdev - Re: [patch net-next v2 0/9] net: sched: introduce chain templates support with offloading to mlxsw

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Date:   Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:38:04 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>,
        john.hurley@...ronome.com, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 0/9] net: sched: introduce chain templates
 support with offloading to mlxsw

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 9:48 PM David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> This series doesn't apply cleanly to net-next, and also there seems to still
> be some discussion about how the iproute2 command line should look.
>

I am sure you know this, so just to be clear:

A redesign of "how iproute2 command line should look" usually means a
redesign in the kernel code too. Apparently, 'tc chaintemplate' is a new
subsystem under TC, while a 'tc filter template' is merely a new TC filter
attribute.