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Date:   Tue, 3 Mar 2020 11:26:17 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
Cc:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <davem@...emloft.net>, <saeedm@...lanox.com>, <leon@...nel.org>,
        <michael.chan@...adcom.com>, <vishal@...lsio.com>,
        <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>, <idosch@...lanox.com>,
        <aelior@...vell.com>, <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        <alexandre.torgue@...com>, <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, <mlxsw@...lanox.com>,
        <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 01/12] flow_offload: Introduce offload of HW
 stats type

On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 18:55:54 +0000 Edward Cree wrote:
> > Also neither proposal addresses the problem of reporting _different_
> > counter values at different stages in the pipeline, i.e. moving from
> > stats per flow to per action. But nobody seems to be willing to work 
> > on that.  
> For the record, I produced a patch series[1] to support that, but it
>  wasn't acceptable because none of the in-tree drivers implemented the
>  facility.  My hope is that we'll be upstreaming our new driver Real
>  Soon Now™, at which point I'll rebase and repost those changes.

Sorry, I wasn't completely fair :) Looking forward :)

> Alternatively if any other vendor wants to support it in their driver
>  they could use those patches as a base.

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