netdev - Re: [v2,net-next 3/4] net: qos: police action add index for tc flower offloading

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Date:   Wed, 24 Jun 2020 22:04:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     po.liu@....com
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Subject: Re: [v2,net-next 3/4] net: qos: police action add index for tc
 flower offloading

From: Po Liu <po.liu@....com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 17:36:30 +0800

> From: Po Liu <Po.Liu@....com>
> 
> Hardware device may include more than one police entry. Specifying the
> action's index make it possible for several tc filters to share the same
> police action when installing the filters.
> 
> Propagate this index to device drivers through the flow offload
> intermediate representation, so that drivers could share a single
> hardware policer between multiple filters.
> 
> v1->v2 changes:
> - Update the commit message suggest by Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Po Liu <Po.Liu@....com>

Applied.