From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Benc Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 3/4] net: sched: cls_u32 add bit to specify software only rules Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:29:07 +0100 Message-ID: <20160224102907.05aa8e42@griffin> References: <20160223190233.5970.61226.stgit@john-Precision-Tower-5810> <20160223190321.5970.58924.stgit@john-Precision-Tower-5810> <20160224080440.GA26500@office.Home> <20160224084057.GC2151@nanopsycho.orion> <56CD701B.8070308@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jiri Pirko , "Amir Vadai\"" , daniel@iogearbox.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net, jhs@mojatatu.com To: John Fastabend Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33753 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751871AbcBXJ3M (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:29:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: <56CD701B.8070308@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:55:55 -0800, John Fastabend wrote: > The flags however likely stays with with TCA_U32_FLAGS until there is > some better way to group common attributes in 'tc' framework. That's pretty bad, as this is uAPI and will need to be supported forever. And having a different attribute in every filter won't ease things for user space tools. I'd say we need the "better way" to be added before this patchset. Jiri