Re: [PATCH mlx5-next v1 2/8] net/mlx5: Add support for flow table destination number

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 12:26 AM, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 12:00:41AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > From: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > Add support to set a destination from a flow table number.
>> > This functionality will be used in downstream patches from this
>> > series by the DEVX stuff.
>>
>> Reading your cover letter, I still don't understand what is missing
>> in the current mlx5 fs core API for your needs. After all, you do
>> create flow tables from the IB driver through fs core calls, right?
>> so @ the end of the day, you have the FT pointer to provide the
>> core, why you need the FT number?
>
> Via the devx API userspace can create flow tables directly without
> going to the driver's flow steering core.

so why you change the core?
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