Tuesday, November 13, 2018 3:21 PM, Shahaf Shuler: > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] net/mlx5: prepare to add E-switch rule > flags check > > Monday, November 12, 2018 10:02 PM, Slava Ovsiienko: > > Subject: [PATCH 0/4] net/mlx5: prepare to add E-switch rule flags > > check > > > > The tc flower filter rules are used to control E-switch from the > > application side. In order to gain garanteed rule hardware offload the > > skip_sw flag should be specified while applying the rule. Some tc > > rules is rejected by kernel if skip_sw flag is set by design. > > Currently this regards VXLAN tunneling rules only, which are applied to > special VXLAN virtual devices. > > > > Albeit these rules should be applied with no skip_sw flag set the > > kernel tries to perform hardware offload. If kernel succeeded the > > in_hw flag is set in rule properties and application may check this > > flag to get know whether the applied rule is actually hardware offloaded. > > > > Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viachesl...@mellanox.com> > > > > Hi Slava, > In general looks good. Please see few comments. > > In addition, please make the signed-of name and the author name match for > the next version.
Series applied to next-net-mlx, with modification of the author name. Thanks.
