netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next V2 0/8] Offloading tc rules using underline Hardware device

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Date:   Fri, 02 Dec 2016 13:29:45 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hadarh@...lanox.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, saeedm@...lanox.com, jiri@...lanox.com,
        amirva@...lanox.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com, roid@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2 0/8] Offloading tc rules using underline
 Hardware device

From: Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@...lanox.com>
Date: Thu,  1 Dec 2016 14:06:32 +0200

> This series adds flower classifier support in offloading tc rules when the
> Software ingress device is different from the Hardware ingress device, 
> such as when dealing with IP tunnels  
> 
> The first two patches are a small fixes to flower, checking the skip_hw flag
> wasn't set before calling the Hardware offloading functions which will try to
> offload the rule.
> 
> The next two patches are infrastructure patches, a preparation for the fourth
> patch which is adding support in flower to offload rules when the ingress
> device is not a Hardware device and therefore can't offload.
> In this case ndo_setup_tc is called with the mirred (egress) device.
> 
> The last three patchs are adding mlx5e support to offload rules using the new
> "egress_device" flag.
 ...
> Changes from v0:
> - check if CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT is defined befor calling tc_action_ops get_dev()

Series applied, thanks.