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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:57:30 +0300
From: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next RFC 0/4] net: sched: allow qdiscs to share filter
block instances
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
>
> Currently the filters added to qdiscs are independent. So for example if you
> have 2 netdevices and you create ingress qdisc on both and you want to add
> identical filter rules both, you need to add them twice. This patchset
> makes this easier and mainly saves resources allowing to share all filters
> within a qdisc - I call it a "filter block". Also this helps to save
> resources when we do offload to hw for example to expensive TCAM.
[...]
> Now we can add filter to any of qdiscs sharing the same block:
> $ tc filter add dev ens7 parent ffff: protocol ip pref 25 flower dst_ip 192.168.0.0/16 action drop
> We will see the same output if we list filters for ens7 and ens8, including stats:
yeah, but the stats belong to the action, not the filter, right? so you create
here actually a shared action? or you also introduced in that series stats
for filters, I am confused...
Or.
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