netdev - Re: [patch net-next v2 00/19] mlxsw: Introduce TC Flower offload using TCAM

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Message-Id: <20170203.165656.1477582799484401549.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:56:56 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, idosch@...lanox.com, eladr@...lanox.com,
        mlxsw@...lanox.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com, jhs@...atatu.com,
        ivecera@...hat.com, jbenc@...hat.com, tom@...bertland.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 00/19] mlxsw: Introduce TC Flower offload
 using TCAM

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Fri,  3 Feb 2017 10:28:50 +0100

> This patchset introduces support for offloading TC cls_flower and actions
> to Spectrum TCAM-base policy engine.
> 
> The patchset contains patches to allow work with flexible keys and actions
> which are used in Spectrum TCAM.
> 
> It also contains in-driver infrastructure for offloading TC rules to TCAM HW.
> The TCAM management code is simple and limited for now. It is going to be
> extended as a follow-up work.
> 
> The last patch uses the previously introduced infra to allow to implement
> cls_flower offloading. Initially, only limited set of match-keys and only
> a drop and forward actions are supported.
> 
> As a dependency, this patchset introduces parman - priority array
> area manager - as a library.
> 
> ---
> v1->v2:
> - patch11:
>   - use __set_bit and __test_and_clear_bit as suggested by DaveM
> - patch16:
>   - Added documentation to the API functions as suggested by Tom Herbert
> - patch17:
>   - use __set_bit and __clear_bit as suggested by DaveM

Series applied, thanks Jiri.