netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next V4 0/7] net/sched: Reflect HW offload status in classifiers

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Message-Id: <20170217.120833.2228965207602375369.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 17 Feb 2017 12:08:33 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ogerlitz@...lanox.com
Cc:     jhs@...atatu.com, roid@...lanox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V4 0/7] net/sched: Reflect HW offload status
 in classifiers 

From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:31:09 +0200

> Currently there is no way of querying whether a filter is
> offloaded to HW or not when using "both" policy (where none
> of skip_sw or skip_hw flags are set by user-space).
> 
> Added two new flags, "in hw" and "not in hw" such that user space 
> can determine if a filter is actually offloaded to hw. The "in hw" 
> UAPI semantics was chosen so it's similar to the "skip hw" flag logic.
> 
> If none of these two flags are set, this signals running
> over older kernel.
 ...

Series applied, thanks Or.