From: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudr...@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 12:18:44 -0700
> On devices that support TC U32 offloads, this flag enables a filter to be
> added only to HW. skip-sw and skip-hw are mutually exclusive flags. By
> default without any flags, the filter is added to both HW and SW, but no
> error checks are done in case of failure to add to HW. With skip-sw,
> failure to add to HW is treated as an error.
I really want you to provide a "[PATCH net-next 0/2]" header posting
explaining what this series is doing, and why.
This is a core semantic issue, and we have to make sure all amongst us
that we are all comfortable with exporting the offloadability controls
in the way you are implementing them.
Also:
> @@ -871,10 +889,15 @@ static int u32_change(struct net *net, struct sk_buff
> *in_skb,
> return err;
> }
>
> + err = u32_replace_hw_knode(tp, new, flags);
> + if (err) {
> + u32_destroy_key(tp, new, false);
> + return err;
> + }
> +
> u32_replace_knode(tp, tp_c, new);
> tcf_unbind_filter(tp, &n->res);
> call_rcu(&n->rcu, u32_delete_key_rcu);
> - u32_replace_hw_knode(tp, new, flags);
> return 0;
> }
>
Are you sure this reordering is OK?
