Re: Ask for help about flow classifier tool

Jiri Pirko
2018-03-17T12:47:58Z

Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:47:23AM CET, xavier.huwei@huawei.com wrote:
>Hi, David
>
> The TC Flower Classifier allows control of packets based on flows
>determined by matching of well-known packet fields and metadata.
> Offload of the TC Flower classifier and related modules provides a
>powerful mechanism to both increase throughput and reduce CPU
>utilisation for users of such flow-based systems.
>
> The command "ethtool -N" can provide similar function.

Afaik ethtool settings is very limited to rx queue steering.

If you want more actions, like vlan modification, tunnels, forward, etc,
you should use tc-flower

>
> Now, hip08 SOC has flow classifier hardware offload capacity, which
>tools we should support in HNS kernel driver?
> Can you give some suggestion?
>
> Regards
>Wei Hu
>