netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next,RFC 0/2] netfilter: add hardware offload infrastructure

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Date:   Thu, 9 May 2019 11:29:02 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next,RFC 0/2] netfilter: add hardware offload
 infrastructure

On Thu,  9 May 2019 18:39:49 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This patchset adds initial hardware offload support for nftables through
> the existing netdev_ops->ndo_setup_tc() interface, the TC_SETUP_CLSFLOWER
> classifier and the flow rule API.
> 
> Patch 1 move the flow block callback infrastructure to
> 	net/core/flow_offload.c. More structure and enumeration definitions
> 	currently in include/net/pkt_cls.h can be also there to reuse this from
> 	the netfilter codebase.
> 
> Patch 2 adds hardware offload support for nftables.
> 
> This patchset depends on a previous patchset:
> 
> 	[PATCH net-next,RFC 0/9] net: sched: prepare to reuse per-block callbacks from netfilter
> 
> More information at: https://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=155623884016026&w=2
> 
> Comments welcome, thanks.

Jiri requested the drivers remember the block info, so we can't have
multiple block binds right now, unless we fix drivers.  See:

commit d6787147e15d ("net/sched: remove block pointer from common
offload structure")

for example.