Re: [PATCH net-next v4 8/9] net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: add network flow classification support

[Roger Quadros <rogerq@kernel.org>]

On 17/05/2025 04:29, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2025 15:04:28 +0300 Roger Quadros wrote:
>> The TRM doesn't mention anything about order of evaluation of the
>> classifier rules however it does mention in [1]
>> "if multiple classifier matches occur, the highest match
>> with thread enable bit set will be used."
> 
> So we're not sure how to maintain the user requested ordering?

Currently we are using the user/ethtool provided location as is.

> Am I reading this correctly? If so then ..
> 
>> +	if (fs->location == RX_CLS_LOC_ANY ||
> 
> .. why are we rejecting LOC_ANY? 

Because driver doesn't have logic to decide the location and relies on ethtool to
decide it if user doesn't supply it.

> 
> I'd think that, in fact, LOC_ANY should be the only loc we can support.
> Note that ethtool hides the location logic on the CLI, if user doesn't
> request a location and driver reports RX_CLS_LOC_SPECIAL ethtool will
> set the location to LOC_ANY.
> 
>> +	    fs->location >= port->rxnfc_max)
>> +		return -EINVAL;

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cheers,
-roger