Re: [PATCH v2 iproute2] tc: f_u32: Add support for skip_hw and skip_sw flags

[Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 16:16:01 -0700
Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> wrote:

> On devices that support TC U32 offloads, these flags enable a filter to be
> added only to HW or only to SW. skip_sw and skip_hw are mutually exclusive
> flags. By default without any flags, the filter is added to both HW and SW,
> but no error checks are done in case of failure to add to HW.
> With skip-sw, failure to add to HW is treated as an error.
> 
> Here is a sample script that adds 2 filters, one with skip_sw and the other
> with skip_hw flag.
> 
>    # add ingress qdisc
>    tc qdisc add dev p4p1 ingress
> 
>    # enable hw tc offload.
>    ethtool -K p4p1 hw-tc-offload on
> 
>    # add u32 filter with skip-sw flag.
>    tc filter add dev p4p1 parent ffff: protocol ip prio 99 \
>       handle 800:0:1 u32 ht 800: flowid 800:1 \
>       skip-sw \
>       match ip src 192.168.1.0/24 \
>       action drop
> 
>    # add u32 filter with skip-hw flag.
>    tc filter add dev p4p1 parent ffff: protocol ip prio 99 \
>       handle 800:0:2 u32 ht 800: flowid 800:2 \
>       skip-hw \
>       match ip src 192.168.2.0/24 \
>       action drop
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>

Applied, then updated, already needed to cleanup some style issues in f_u32 anyway.