netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] dpaa2-eth: Add support for Rx flow classification

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Date:   Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:24:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ruxandra.radulescu@....com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, ioana.ciornei@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] dpaa2-eth: Add support for Rx flow
 classification

From: Ioana Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@....com>
Date: Mon,  1 Oct 2018 13:44:54 +0300

> The Management Complex (MC) firmware initially allowed the
> configuration of a single key to be used both for Rx flow hashing
> and flow classification. This prevented us from supporting
> Rx flow classification independently of the hash key configuration.
> 
> Newer firmware versions expose separate commands for
> configuring the two types of keys, so we can use them to
> introduce Rx classification support. For frames that don't match
> any classification rule, we fall back to statistical distribution
> based on the current hash key.
> 
> The first patch in this set updates the Rx hashing code to use
> the new firmware API for key config. Subsequent patches introduce
> the firmware API for configuring the classification and actual
> support for adding and deleting rules via ethtool.

Series applied, thanks.