netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 0/3] flow_offload: Re-add per-action statistics

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Date:   Sat, 18 May 2019 16:39:05 -0400
From:   Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:     Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
        Vishal Kulkarni <vishal@...lsio.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 net-next 0/3] flow_offload: Re-add per-action
 statistics

On 2019-05-17 1:14 p.m., Edward Cree wrote:
> On 17/05/2019 16:27, Edward Cree wrote:
>> I'm now leaning towards the
>>   approach of adding "unsigned long cookie" to struct flow_action_entry
>>   and populating it with (unsigned long)act in tc_setup_flow_action().
> 
> For concreteness, here's what that looks like: patch 1 is replaced with
>   the following, the other two are unchanged.
> Drivers now have an easier job, as they can just use the cookie directly
>   as a hashtable key, rather than worrying about which action types share
>   indices.

Per my other email, this will break tc semantics. It doesnt look
possible to specify an index from user space. Did i miss
something?


cheers,
jamal