netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/8] net: sched: add extack support for cls offloads

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Message-Id: <20180122.163243.1330972091863592386.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:32:43 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Cc:     dsahern@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us, aring@...atatu.com,
        daniel@...earbox.net, alexei.starovoitov@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/8] net: sched: add extack support for cls
 offloads

From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:44:42 -0800

> Hi!
> 
> I've dropped the tests from the series because test_offloads.py changes
> will conflict with bpf-next patches.  I will send four more patches with
> tests once bpf-next is merged back, hopefully still making it into 4.16 :)
> 
> v4:
>  - rebase on top of Alex's changes.
> 
> ---
> 
> Quentin says:
> 
> This series tries to improve user experience when eBPF hardware offload
> hits error paths at load time. In particular, it introduces netlink
> extended ack support in the nfp driver.
> 
> To that aim, transmission of the pointer to the extack object is piped
> through the `change()` operation of the existing classifiers (patch 1 to
> 6). Then it is used for TC offload in the nfp driver (patch 8) and in
> netdevsim (patch 9, selftest in patch 10). Patch 7 adds a helper to handle
> extack messages in the core when TC offload is disabled on the net device.
> 
> For completeness extack is propagated for classifiers other than cls_bpf,
> but it's up to the drivers to make use of it.

Series applied, thanks Jakub.