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From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
To: Amir Vadai <amir@vadai.me>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>,
	Hadar Har-Zion <hadarh@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2 0/3] net/sched: act_pedit: Use offset relative to conventional network headers
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 12:54:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170105125414.5640b1b8@griffin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170105095454.32644-1-amir@vadai.me>

On Thu,  5 Jan 2017 11:54:51 +0200, Amir Vadai wrote:
> You asked me [1] why did I use specific header names instead of layers (L2, L3...),
> and I explained that it is on purpose, this extra information is planned to be used
> by hardware drivers to offload the action.
> 
> Some FW/HW parser APIs are such that they need to get the specific header type (e.g
> IPV4 or IPV6, TCP or UDP) and not only the networking level (e.g network or transport).

Don't we need better API specification (and enforcement) then, though?
See below.

> Usage example:
> $ tc filter add dev enp0s9 protocol ip parent ffff: \
>    flower \
>      ip_proto tcp \
>     dst_port 80 \
>    action \
>        pedit munge ip ttl add 0xff \
>        pedit munge tcp dport set 8080 \
>      pipe action mirred egress redirect dev veth0

What happens when one does:

tc filter add ... flower ip_proto udp action pedit munge tcp ...

?

 Jiri

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-05 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-05  9:54 [PATCH net-next V2 0/3] net/sched: act_pedit: Use offset relative to conventional network headers Amir Vadai
2017-01-05  9:54 ` [PATCH net-next V2 1/3] net/skbuff: Introduce skb_mac_offset() Amir Vadai
2017-01-05  9:54 ` [PATCH net-next V2 2/3] net/act_pedit: Support using offset relative to the conventional network headers Amir Vadai
2017-01-05  9:54 ` [PATCH net-next V2 3/3] net/act_pedit: Introduce 'add' operation Amir Vadai
2017-01-05 11:54 ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2017-01-05 12:34   ` [PATCH net-next V2 0/3] net/sched: act_pedit: Use offset relative to conventional network headers Amir Vadai
2017-01-05 12:44     ` Jiri Benc
2017-01-07  1:51 ` David Miller
2017-01-08  8:46   ` Amir Vadai

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