From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: pablo@netfilter.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, thomas.lendacky@amd.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12 net-next,v2] add flow_rule infrastructure
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 12:12:29 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181119.121229.2109900411029672811.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181119001519.12124-1-pablo@netfilter.org>
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 01:15:07 +0100
> This patchset introduces a kernel intermediate representation (IR) to
> express ACL hardware offloads, as already described in previous RFC and
> v1 patchset [1] [2]. The idea is to normalize the frontend U/APIs to use
> the flow dissectors and the flow actions so drivers can reuse the
> existing TC offload driver codebase - that has been converted to use the
> flow_rule infrastructure.
I'm go to bring up the elephant in the room.
I think the real motivation here is to offload netfilter rules to HW,
and you should be completely honest about that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-20 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-19 0:15 [PATCH 00/12 net-next,v2] add flow_rule infrastructure Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 0:15 ` [PATCH net-next,v2 01/12] flow_dissector: add flow_rule and flow_match structures and use them Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 0:15 ` [PATCH net-next,v2 02/12] net/mlx5e: support for two independent packet edit actions Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 0:15 ` [PATCH net-next,v2 03/12] flow_dissector: add flow action infrastructure Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 11:56 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-11-19 12:35 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 13:05 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-11-19 14:03 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-11-19 14:42 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 16:26 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 16:29 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-11-19 0:15 ` [PATCH net-next,v2 04/12] cls_api: add translator to flow_action representation Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 12:12 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-11-19 13:21 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 13:22 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-11-19 12:16 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-11-19 12:37 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 0:15 ` [PATCH net-next,v2 05/12] cls_flower: add statistics retrieval infrastructure and use it Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 13:57 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-11-19 14:48 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 15:04 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-11-19 16:15 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 0:15 ` [PATCH net-next,v2 06/12] drivers: net: use flow action infrastructure Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 0:15 ` [PATCH net-next,v2 07/12] cls_flower: don't expose TC actions to drivers anymore Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 0:15 ` [PATCH net-next,v2 08/12] flow_dissector: add wake-up-on-lan and queue to flow_action Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 13:59 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-11-19 0:15 ` [PATCH net-next,v2 09/12] flow_dissector: add basic ethtool_rx_flow_spec to flow_rule structure translator Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 14:17 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-11-19 14:43 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 14:49 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-11-19 16:16 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 0:15 ` [PATCH net-next,v2 10/12] dsa: bcm_sf2: use flow_rule infrastructure Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 0:15 ` [PATCH net-next 11/12] qede: place ethtool_rx_flow_spec after code after TC flower codebase Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 0:15 ` [PATCH net-next 12/12] qede: use ethtool_rx_flow_rule() to remove duplicated parser code Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 16:00 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-11-19 16:12 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 21:44 ` Chopra, Manish
2018-11-19 9:20 ` [PATCH 00/12 net-next,v2] add flow_rule infrastructure Jose Abreu
2018-11-19 10:19 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-11-19 20:12 ` David Miller [this message]
2018-11-19 21:19 ` Or Gerlitz
2018-11-20 7:39 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-11-20 17:16 ` David Miller
2018-11-21 7:46 ` Jiri Pirko
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