Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 09:12:35AM CET, jakub.kicin...@netronome.com wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:55:56 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 08:17:34AM CET, jakub.kicin...@netronome.com wrote:
>> >On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 07:25:38 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:  
>> >> Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 03:14:18AM CET, jakub.kicin...@netronome.com wrote:  
>> >> >On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 16:55:55 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:    
>> >> >> From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> In order to remove tp->q usage in cls_bpf, the offload->netdev check
>> >> >> needs to be moved to individual drivers as only they will have access
>> >> >> to appropriate struct net_device.
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>    
>> >> >
>> >> >This seems not entirely correct and it adds unnecessary code.  I think   
>> >> > 
>> >> 
>> >> What is not correct?  
>> >
>> >From quick reading it looks like you will allow to install the
>> >dev-specific filter without skip_sw flag.  You haven't fixed what  
>> 
>> Right. I see it now.
>> 
>> 
>> >your previous series broke in cls_bpf offload model and now you   
>> 
>> What do you mean exactly?
>
>As explained elsewhere, cls_bpf used to track what's offloaded and
>issue ADD/REPLACE/DESTORY accordingly.  Now drivers need to know what
>they're offloading, but they still don't.  So if you add a filter that
>offload successfully and then one that doesn't, the spurious DESTORY
>will kill the wrong offload.

Ah, got it.

>
>> >break it even further.
>> >  
>> >> >the XDP and cls_bpf handling could be unified, making way for binding
>> >> >the same program to multiple ports of the same device.  Would you mind
>> >> >waiting a day for me to send corrections to BPF offload?    
>> >> 
>> >> Well I'm trying to get this in before net-next closes...  
>> >
>> >Right, and I'm surprised by that.  I'd hope you'll understand my caution
>> >here given recent history.  
>> 
>> Sure.
>
>I looked through this series and I can't grasp all the details of how
>things are supposed to work from the code here :(  Perhaps important
>bits went in earlier and I missed them.
>
>Starting from the most fundamental thing - if I have a shared block
>full of skip_sw filters and then bind it to a device which doesn't even
>have ndo_setup_tc - what prevents that from happening?

Nothing atm. I need to add some check there. Thanks.


>
>AFACT tcf_block_offload_cmd() is returning void.

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