netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 09/11] bnxt_en: bnxt: add TC flower filter offload support

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Date:   Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:52:05 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@...adcom.com>
Cc:     Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 09/11] bnxt_en: bnxt: add TC flower filter
 offload support

Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:43:22AM CEST, sathya.perla@...adcom.com wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:
>> Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 07:40:33PM CEST, michael.chan@...adcom.com wrote:
>>>From: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@...adcom.com>
>>>
>>>This patch adds support for offloading TC based flow
>>>rules and actions for the 'flower' classifier in the bnxt_en driver.
>>>It includes logic to parse flow rules and actions received from the
>>>TC subsystem, store them and issue the corresponding
>>>hwrm_cfa_flow_alloc/free FW cmds. L2/IPv4/IPv6 flows and drop,
>>>redir, vlan push/pop actions are supported in this patch.
>>>
>>>In this patch the hwrm_cfa_flow_xxx routines are just stubs.
>>>The code for these routines is introduced in the next patch for easier
>>>review. Also, the code to query the TC/flower action stats will
>>>be introduced in a subsequent patch.
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> You are missing checks for the offload. Please see nfp as an example:
>> Function nfp_flower_setup_tc:
>>
>>             !is_classid_clsact_ingress(cls_flower->common.classid) ||
>>             cls_flower->common.chain_index)
>
>Thanks for catching this...will send a patch.
>
>>
>> Do you support both ingress and egress or ingress only?
>
>Ingress only for flower offload.

Cool, the check would resolve it. Thanks!