netdev - Re: [PATCH net 00/13] cls_u32 cleanups and fixes.

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Date:   Mon, 10 Sep 2018 07:30:45 -0400
From:   Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 00/13] cls_u32 cleanups and fixes.

On 2018-09-09 10:15 a.m., Al Viro wrote:

[..]

> Umm...  Interesting - TCA_U32_SEL is not the only thing that
> gets ignored there; TCA_U32_MARK gets the same treatment.
> And then there's a lovely question what to do with n->pf -
> it's an array of n->sel.nkeys counters, and apparently we
> want (at least in common cases) to avoid resetting those.

> *If* we declare that ->nkeys mismatch means failure, it's
> all relatively easy to implement.  Alternatively, we could
> declare that selector change means resetting the stats.
> Preferences?

I am now conflicted. I have sample scripts which showed
that at one point that worked. All of them seem to be
indicating the nkeys and stats never changed. So that
could be a starting point; however, if a policy changes
the match tuples then it is no longer the same rule imo.

Note: you can change the "actions" - of which the most
primitive is "set classid x:y" without changing what is
being matched. i.e changing the classid in that example
would work.

cheers,
jamal