netdev - Re: [patch net-next 3/4] net: sched: convert cls_flower->egress_dev users to tc_setup_cb

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Date:   Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:47:19 +0300
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        John Hurley <john.hurley@...ronome.com>
Cc:     Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        mlxsw <mlxsw@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 3/4] net: sched: convert cls_flower->egress_dev
 users to tc_setup_cb_egdev infra

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 12:16 AM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:
> Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:08:23PM CEST, gerlitz.or@...il.com wrote:
>>On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:
>>> The only user of cls_flower->egress_dev is mlx5.
>>
>>but nfp supports decap action offload too and from the flower code
>>stand point, I guess they are both the same, right? how does it work
>>there?
>
> Apparently they don't use cls_flower->egress_dev.

John, can you elaborate on that, how do you manage to get away from
that practice?