From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
To: Amir Vadai <amir@vadai.me>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org,
John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Cc: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>,
Hadar Har-Zion <hadarh@mellanox.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>,
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 6/9] net/cls_flower: Introduce hardware offloading
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 01:31:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56AF25E5.6000105@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1454315685-32202-7-git-send-email-amir@vadai.me>
On 16-02-01 12:34 AM, Amir Vadai wrote:
> During initialization, tcf_exts_offload_init() is called to initialize
> the list of actions description. later on, the classifier description
> is prepared and sent to the switchdev using switchdev_port_flow_add().
>
> When offloaded, fl_classify() is a NOP - already done in hardware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amir@vadai.me>
> ---
You need to account for where the classifier is being loaded
by passing the handle as I did in my patch set. Otherwise you may
be offloading on egress/ingress or even some qdisc multiple layers
down in the hierarchy.
.John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-01 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-01 8:34 [RFC net-next 0/9] TC filter HW offloads Amir Vadai
2016-02-01 8:34 ` [RFC net-next 1/9] net/flow_dissector: Make dissector_uses_key() and skb_flow_dissector_target() public Amir Vadai
2016-02-01 8:34 ` [RFC net-next 2/9] net/switchdev: Introduce hardware offload support Amir Vadai
2016-02-01 9:06 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-02-01 9:11 ` amirva
2016-02-01 9:26 ` John Fastabend
2016-02-01 8:34 ` [RFC net-next 3/9] net/act: Offload support by tc actions Amir Vadai
2016-02-01 8:34 ` [RFC net-next 4/9] net/act_skbedit: Introduce hardware offload support Amir Vadai
2016-02-01 8:34 ` [RFC net-next 5/9] net/act_gact: Introduce hardware offload support for drop Amir Vadai
2016-02-01 8:34 ` [RFC net-next 6/9] net/cls_flower: Introduce hardware offloading Amir Vadai
2016-02-01 9:31 ` John Fastabend [this message]
2016-02-01 9:47 ` John Fastabend
2016-02-01 10:43 ` Amir Vadai
2016-02-01 21:25 ` John Fastabend
2016-02-01 8:34 ` [RFC net-next 7/9] net/mlx5_core: Go to next flow table support Amir Vadai
2016-02-01 8:34 ` [RFC net-next 8/9] net/mlx5e: Introduce MLX5_FLOW_NAMESPACE_OFFLOADS Amir Vadai
2016-02-01 8:34 ` [RFC net-next 9/9] net/mlx5e: Flow steering support through switchdev Amir Vadai
2016-02-01 18:52 ` Saeed Mahameed
2016-02-01 21:45 ` Or Gerlitz
2016-02-01 9:21 ` [RFC net-next 0/9] TC filter HW offloads John Fastabend
2016-02-01 14:37 ` Amir Vadai
2016-02-01 19:59 ` Tom Herbert
2016-02-01 20:14 ` John Fastabend
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