linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net/mlx5: fs, add API for sharing HWS action by refcount

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Message-ID: <9c09dc9b-f007-4494-988f-9157720feef7@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:48:56 -0700
From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
To: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, "Paolo
 Abeni" <pabeni@...hat.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>
CC: Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>, Mark Bloch <mbloch@...dia.com>, "Moshe
 Shemesh" <moshe@...dia.com>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, "Leon
 Romanovsky" <leon@...nel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net/mlx5: fs, add API for sharing HWS action
 by refcount



On 3/9/2025 11:07 AM, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> From: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...dia.com>
> 
> Counters HWS actions are shared using refcount, to create action on
> demand by flow steering rule and destroy only when no rules are using
> the action. The method is extensible to other HWS action types, such as
> flow meter and sampler actions, in the downstream patches.
> 
> Add an API to facilitate the reuse of get/put logic for HWS actions
> shared by refcount.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...dia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>