netdev - Re: [patch net-next] net: sched: add helpers to handle extended actions

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Message-ID: <39bdfccb-0d2f-bbbb-6faf-8ba1db303e10@mojatatu.com>
Date:   Tue, 2 May 2017 07:57:52 -0400
From:   Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] net: sched: add helpers to handle extended
 actions

On 17-05-02 01:51 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 04:08:15PM CEST, jhs@...atatu.com wrote:
>> Jiri,
>>
>> With "goto chain X" this will have to be more generalized. Maybe
>> we have 0xAXXXXXXX Where "A" recognizes the extension with
>> current values ACT_JUMP(0x1) and GOTO_CHAIN(maybe 0x2)
>> and the rest "XXXXXXX" is a free floating parameter values
>> which carry the goto count for ACT_JUMP and GOTO_CHAIN chain-id.
>
> That is exactly what this patch is doing.
>

You are right, sorry ;->

cheers,
jamal