netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] sched,mlx5: Offloaded TC flower filter statistics

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Date:	Mon, 16 May 2016 13:44:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	amir@...ai.me
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ogerlitz@...lanox.com, saeedm@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] sched,mlx5: Offloaded TC flower filter
 statistics

From: Amir Vadai <amir@...ai.me>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 12:55:34 +0000

> This patchset introduces counters support for offloaded cls_flower filters.
> When the user calls 'tc show -s ..', fl_dump is called.
> Before fl_dump() returns the statistics, it calls the NIC driver (using a new
> ndo_setup_tc() command - TC_CLSFLOWER_STATS) to read the hardware counters and
> update the statistics accordingly. A new TC action op was added (stats_update())
> to be used by the NIC driver to update the statistics.
> 
> Patchset was applied and tested over commit ed7cbbc ("udp: Resolve NULL pointer
> dereference over flow-based vxlan device")

Series applied, thanks.