netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/9] flower: rework TCA_FLOWER_KEY_ENC

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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:06:35 +0200
From: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>
To: Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen <ast@...erby.net>
Cc: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@....org>, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/9] flower: rework TCA_FLOWER_KEY_ENC_FLAGS
 usage

hi Asbjørn, thanks for the patch! 

On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 11:53:33PM +0000, Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen wrote:
> This series reworks the recently added TCA_FLOWER_KEY_ENC_FLAGS
> attribute, to be more like TCA_FLOWER_KEY_FLAGS, and use
> the unused u32 flags field in TCA_FLOWER_KEY_ENC_CONTROL,
> instead of adding another u32 in FLOW_DISSECTOR_KEY_ENC_FLAGS.
> 
> I have defined the new FLOW_DIS_F_* and TCA_FLOWER_KEY_FLAGS_*
> flags to coexists for now, so the meaning of the flags field
> in struct flow_dissector_key_control is not depending on the
> context that it is used in. If we run out of bits then we can
> always make split them up later, if we really want to.
> 
> Davide and Ilya would this work for you?

If you are ok with this, I can adjust the iproute code I keep locally,
and the kselftest, re-test, and than report back to the series total
reviewed-by.
It's going a take some days though; and of course, those bit will be
upstreamed as well. 

WDYT?

> Currently this series is only compile-tested.
> 

thanks,
-- 
davide