Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] flow_offload: add tc police parameters

Simon Horman
2022-02-17T11:34:54Z

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 08:28:01AM +0000, Jianbo Liu wrote:
> As a preparation for more advanced police offload in mlx5 (e.g.,
> jumping to another chain when bandwidth is not exceeded), extend the
> flow offload API with more tc-police parameters. Adjust existing
> drivers to reject unsupported configurations.

Hi,

I have a concern that
a) patch 1 introduces a facility that may break existing drivers; and
b) patch 2 then fixes this

I'd slightly prefer if the series was rearranged to avoid this problem.

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