netdev - Re: [patch net-next] mlxsw: acl: Use PBS type for forward action

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Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2017 13:23:43 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, idosch@...lanox.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] mlxsw: acl: Use PBS type for forward action

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:09:51 +0100

> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> 
> Current behaviour of "mirred redirect" action (forward) offload is a bit
> odd. For matched packets the action forwards them to the desired
> destination, but it also lets the packet duplicates to go the original
> way down (bridge, router, etc). That is more like "mirred mirror".
> Fix this by using PBS type which behaves exactly like "mirred redirect".
> Note that PBS does not support loopback mode.
> 
> Fixes: 4cda7d8d7098 ("mlxsw: core: Introduce flexible actions support")
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>

Applied, thanks.