netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH mlx5-next 01/18] net/mlx5: Add proper NIC TX steering flow tables support

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Date:   Tue, 17 Jul 2018 00:14:03 +0300
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     Mark Bloch <markb@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>,
        RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        linux-netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH mlx5-next 01/18] net/mlx5: Add proper NIC TX steering
 flow tables support

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 11:22 AM, Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org> wrote:
> From: Mark Bloch <markb@...lanox.com>
>
> Expose the ability to add steering rules to NIC TX flow tables.
> For now, we are only adding TX bypass (egress) which is used by the RDMA
> side. While we are here clean the switch logic.
>
> We expose the same number of priorities as the RX bypass.

What is the use-case / model for priorities in TX steering?

Is/where this (tx prios) is used @ downstream patch?

Or.