netdev - Re: [PATCH mlx5-next 7/7] net/mlx5: TC: Offload flow table rules

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Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 21:32:30 +0100
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Cc:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org" <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mlx5-next 7/7] net/mlx5: TC: Offload flow table rules

Hi Saeed,

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:37:27AM +0000, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 00:34 +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > From: Paul Blakey <paulb@...lanox.com>
> > 
> > Since both tc rules and flow table rules are of the same format,
> > we can re-use tc parsing for that, and move the flow table rules
> > to their steering domain - In this case, the next chain after
> > max tc chain.
> > 
> > Issue: 1929510
> > Change-Id: I68bf14d5398b91cf26cc7c7f19dab64ba8757c01
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey <paulb@...lanox.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <markb@...lanox.com>
> > Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
> 
> Series LGTM, 
> 
> couple of things:
>  
> 1) Paul should have removed Issue and change-Id tags
> I can do this myself when i apply those to my trees.
>
> 2) patches #1..#6 can perfectly go mlx5-next,
> already tried and i had to resolve some trivial conflicts, but all
> good.

Thanks.

> 3) this patch needs to be on top of net-next, due to dependency with 
> TC_SETUP_FT, I will resubmit it through my normal pull request
> procedure after applying all other patches in this series to mlx5-next
> shared branch. 
>
> All patches will land in net-next in couple of days, i guess there is
> no rush to have them there immediately ?

No rush on my side.

We have to wait for David to tell us if he is fine to apply this
patchset into net-next, then pull from your tree the first client for
this code in a couple of days as you suggest.