netdev - RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: ethtool: Support setting ntuple rule count

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:34:41 +0000
From:   Sunil Kovvuri Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: ethtool: Support setting
 ntuple rule count



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sunil Kovvuri Goutham
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 6:46 PM
> To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
> Cc: davem@...emloft.net; netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: ethtool: Support setting
> ntuple rule count
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 11:28 PM
> > To: Sunil Kovvuri Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>
> > Cc: davem@...emloft.net; netdev@...r.kernel.org
> > Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: ethtool: Support setting
> > ntuple rule count
> >
> > External Email
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 18:21:21 +0530 sgoutham@...vell.com wrote:
> > > From: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>
> > >
> > > Some NICs share resources like packet filters across multiple
> > > interfaces they support. From HW point of view it is possible to use
> > > all filters for a single interface.
> > > Currently ethtool doesn't support modifying filter count so that
> > > user can allocate more filters to a interface and less to others.
> > > This patch adds ETHTOOL_SRXCLSRLCNT ioctl command for modifying
> > > filter count.
> > >
> > > example command:
> > > ./ethtool -U eth0 rule-count 256
> >
> > man devlink-resource ?
> 
> Since ntuple rule insert and delete are part of ethtool, I thought having this
> config also in ethtool will make user life easy ie all ntuple related stuff within
> one tool.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sunil.

Any further feedback or objections to these change ?

Thanks,
Sunil.