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Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 09:49:53 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Roi Dayan <roid@...lanox.com>,
Paul Blakey <paulb@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute] tc: Reflect HW offload status
On Thu, 4 May 2017 16:15:15 +0300
Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com> wrote:
> 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).
>
> Add two new flags, "in hw" and "not in hw" such that user
> space can determine if a filter is actually offloaded to
> hw or not. 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
Applied thanks
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