netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 00/16] Handle multi chain hardware misses

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Message-ID: <41b34b364a2656a6f3e37ba256161de477e7881d.camel@mellanox.com>
Date:   Wed, 19 Feb 2020 02:43:08 +0000
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
To:     Oz Shlomo <ozsh@...lanox.com>, Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com>,
        Paul Blakey <paulb@...lanox.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        "kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Roi Dayan <roid@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 00/16] Handle multi chain hardware misses

On Sun, 2020-02-16 at 12:01 +0200, Paul Blakey wrote:
> Hi David/Jakub/Saeed,
> 
> TC multi chain configuration can cause offloaded tc chains to miss in
> hardware after jumping to some chain. In such cases the software
> should
> continue from the chain that was missed in hardware, as the hardware
> may have
> manipulated the packet and updated some counters.
> 

[...]

> Note that miss path handling of multi-chain rules is a required
> infrastructure
> for connection tracking hardware offload. The connection tracking
> offload
> series will follow this one.
> 

Hi Dave, 

As was agreed, i will apply this series and the two to follow to a side
branch until all the connection tracking offloads patchsets are posted
by Paul and reviewed/acked.

in case of no objection i will apply this patchset to allow Paul to
move forward with the other two connection tracking patchsets.

Thanks,
Saeed.