From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch net-next v11 00/13] net: sched: allow qdiscs to share filter block instances Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:55:35 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20180117.145535.372452000577277915.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20180117104657.8605-1-jiri@resnulli.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jhs@mojatatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, mlxsw@mellanox.com, andrew@lunn.ch, vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com, michael.chan@broadcom.com, ganeshgr@chelsio.com, saeedm@mellanox.com, matanb@mellanox.com, leonro@mellanox.com, idosch@mellanox.com, jakub.kicinski@netronome.com, simon.horman@netronome.com, pieter.jansenvanvuuren@netronome.com, john.hurley@netronome.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, ogerlitz@mellanox.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, daniel@iogearbox.net, dsahern@gmail.com To: jiri@resnulli.us Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:35038 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752068AbeAQTzi (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:55:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20180117104657.8605-1-jiri@resnulli.us> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jiri Pirko Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:46:44 +0100 > Currently the filters added to qdiscs are independent. So for example if you > have 2 netdevices and you create ingress qdisc on both and you want to add > identical filter rules both, you need to add them twice. This patchset > makes this easier and mainly saves resources allowing to share all filters > within a qdisc - I call it a "filter block". Also this helps to save > resources when we do offload to hw for example to expensive TCAM. Series applied, thanks Jiri et al.