netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net/sched: cls_flower: Introduce support in SKIP SW flag

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Message-Id: <20160607.155006.1171124874702317139.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:50:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	amir@...ai.me
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...lanox.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com,
	hadarh@...lanox.com, amirva@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/sched: cls_flower: Introduce support in
 SKIP SW flag

From: Amir Vadai <amir@...ai.me>
Date: Sun,  5 Jun 2016 17:11:18 +0300

> From: Amir Vadai <amirva@...lanox.com>
> 
> In order to make a filter processed only by hardware, skip_sw flag
> should be supplied. This is an addition to the already existing skip_hw
> flag (filter will be processed by software only). If no flag is
> specified, filter will be processed by both software and hardware.
> 
> If only hardware offloaded filters exist, fl_classify() will return
> without doing anything.
> 
> A following userspace patch will be sent once kernel patch is accepted.
> 
> Example:
> 
> tc filter add dev enp0s9 protocol ip prio 20 parent ffff: \
> 	flower \
> 		ip_proto 6 \
> 		indev enp0s9 \
> 		skip_sw \
> 	action skbedit mark 0x1234
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirva@...lanox.com>

Applied.