netdev - RE: [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue PATCH v6 10/10] igb: Add support for adding offloaded clsflower filters

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Message-ID: <87woxgjn81.fsf@intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:36:46 -0700
From:   Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>
To:     "Brown\, Aaron F" <aaron.f.brown@...el.com>,
        "intel-wired-lan\@lists.osuosl.org" 
        <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>
Cc:     "netdev\@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Sanchez-Palencia\, Jesus" <jesus.sanchez-palencia@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue PATCH v6 10/10] igb: Add support for adding offloaded clsflower filters

Hi,

"Brown, Aaron F" <aaron.f.brown@...el.com> writes:

>> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces@...osl.org] On
>> Behalf Of Vinicius Costa Gomes
>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 2:08 PM
>> To: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org
>> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org; Sanchez-Palencia, Jesus <jesus.sanchez-
>> palencia@...el.com>
>> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue PATCH v6 10/10] igb: Add support for
>> adding offloaded clsflower filters
>> 
>> This allows filters added by tc-flower and specifying MAC addresses,
>> Ethernet types, and the VLAN priority field, to be offloaded to the
>> controller.
>
> Can I get a brief explanation for enabling this?  I'm currently happy
> with this patch series from a regression perspective, but am
> personally a bit, umm, challenged with tc in general but would like to
> run it through the paces a bit.  If it can be done in a one or two
> liner I think it would be a good addition to the patch description.


Of course, my bad for not adding those examples since the begining.



Cheers,
--
Vinicius