From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/8] net: sched: add extack support for cls offloads Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:32:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20180122.163243.1330972091863592386.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20180120014450.29666-1-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dsahern@gmail.com, jiri@resnulli.us, aring@mojatatu.com, daniel@iogearbox.net, alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, oss-drivers@netronome.com To: jakub.kicinski@netronome.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:41558 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750878AbeAVVcp (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:32:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20180120014450.29666-1-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jakub Kicinski Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:44:42 -0800 > Hi! > > I've dropped the tests from the series because test_offloads.py changes > will conflict with bpf-next patches. I will send four more patches with > tests once bpf-next is merged back, hopefully still making it into 4.16 :) > > v4: > - rebase on top of Alex's changes. > > --- > > Quentin says: > > This series tries to improve user experience when eBPF hardware offload > hits error paths at load time. In particular, it introduces netlink > extended ack support in the nfp driver. > > To that aim, transmission of the pointer to the extack object is piped > through the `change()` operation of the existing classifiers (patch 1 to > 6). Then it is used for TC offload in the nfp driver (patch 8) and in > netdevsim (patch 9, selftest in patch 10). Patch 7 adds a helper to handle > extack messages in the core when TC offload is disabled on the net device. > > For completeness extack is propagated for classifiers other than cls_bpf, > but it's up to the drivers to make use of it. Series applied, thanks Jakub.