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From: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jakub.kicinski@netronome.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, nirranjan@chelsio.com, vishal@chelsio.com,
	dt@chelsio.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] cxgb4: add TC-MATCHALL classifier egress offload
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 20:38:30 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191115150824.GA14296@chelsio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191115135845.GC2158@nanopsycho>

On Friday, November 11/15/19, 2019 at 14:58:45 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 01:14:20PM CET, rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
> >+static int cxgb4_matchall_egress_validate(struct net_device *dev,
> >+					  struct tc_cls_matchall_offload *cls)
> >+{
> >+	struct netlink_ext_ack *extack = cls->common.extack;
> >+	struct flow_action *actions = &cls->rule->action;
> >+	struct port_info *pi = netdev2pinfo(dev);
> >+	struct flow_action_entry *entry;
> >+	u64 max_link_rate;
> >+	u32 i, speed;
> >+	int ret;
> >+
> >+	if (cls->common.prio != 1) {
> >+		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack,
> >+				   "Egress MATCHALL offload must have prio 1");
> 
> I don't understand why you need it to be prio 1.

This is to maintain rule ordering with the kernel. Jakub has suggested
this in my earlier series [1][2]. I see similar checks in various
drivers (mlx5 and nfp), while offloading matchall with policer.

[1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1194936/#2304413
[2] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1194301/#2303749

Thanks,
Rahul

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-15 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-15 12:14 [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] cxgb4: add TC-MATCHALL classifier offload Rahul Lakkireddy
2019-11-15 12:14 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] cxgb4: add TC-MATCHALL classifier egress offload Rahul Lakkireddy
2019-11-15 13:58   ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-15 15:08     ` Rahul Lakkireddy [this message]
2019-11-15 15:32       ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-15 18:51         ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-15 19:00           ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2019-11-15 19:28             ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-15 12:14 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] cxgb4: add TC-MATCHALL classifier ingress offload Rahul Lakkireddy
2019-11-15 13:53   ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-15 15:10     ` Rahul Lakkireddy

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