netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 0/4] net: sched: support replay of filter offload when binding to block

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Message-ID: <CAJ3xEMjfSc=yg+o+Pv4AQw0P-1C4pDjKa=ctCbeS2hWWMR+RPw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 13:48:28 +0300
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        John Hurley <john.hurley@...ronome.com>
Cc:     Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com, Rabie Loulou <rabiel@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 0/4] net: sched: support replay of filter offload
 when binding to block

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 5:25 AM, Jakub Kicinski
<jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com> wrote:
> This series from John adds the ability to replay filter offload requests
> when new offload callback is being registered on a TC block.  This is most
> likely to take place for shared blocks today, when a block which already
> has rules is bound to another interface.  Prior to this patch set if any
> of the rules were offloaded the block bind would fail.

Can you elaborate a little further here? is this something that you are planning
to use for the uplink LAG use-case? AFAIU if we apply share-block to nfp as
things are prior to this patch, it would work, so there's a case where
it doesn't
and this is now handled with the series?