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Date:   Tue, 06 Nov 2018 15:06:19 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch,
        vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com, pablo@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Store rules in lists

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Tue,  6 Nov 2018 12:58:36 -0800

> Hi all,
> 
> This patch series changes the bcm-sf2 driver to keep a copy of the
> inserted rules as opposed to using the HW as a storage area for a number
> of reasons:
> 
> - this helps us with doing duplicate rule detection in a faster way, it
>   would have required a full rule read before
> 
> - this helps with Pablo's on-going work to convert ethtool_rx_flow_spec
>   to a more generic flow rule structure by having fewer code paths to
>   convert to the new structure/helpers
> 
> - we need to cache copies to restore them during drive resumption,
>   because depending on the low power mode the system has entered, the
>   switch may have lost all of its context

Looks good to me, series applied and build testing right now.

I will say that the ethtool flow spec comparison should probably
eventually be broken out into a helper function places somewhere
common.  It's very likely this approach, and thus the helper, can
be used by other drivers in a similar situation.

Thanks.