On 2/6/19 10:39 AM, David Miller wrote: > From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 12:50:42 +0100 > >> This patchset, as is, allows us to reuse the driver codebase to >> configure ACL hardware offloads for the ethtool_rxnfc and the TC flower >> interfaces. A few clients for this infrastructure are presented, such as >> the bcm_sf2 and the qede drivers, for reference. Moreover all of the >> existing drivers in the tree are converted to use this infrastructure. >> >> This patchset is re-using the existing flow dissector infrastructure >> that was introduced by Jiri Pirko et al. so the amount of abstractions >> that this patchset adds are minimal. Well, just a few wrapper structures >> for the selector side of the rules. And, in order to express actions, >> this patchset exposes an action API that is based on the existing TC >> action infrastructure and what existing drivers already support on that >> front. >> >> v7: This patchset is a rebase on top of the net-next tree, after >> addressing questions and feedback from driver developers in the >> last batch. > > Ok, I've thought long and hard about this. > > Applied to net-next, let's see where this goes. > > I'll push this out after my build testing completes. Great! Thanks. FWIW, I just ran basic testing on bcm_sf2 with this series applied and have not had regressions, so this is good. -- Florian
