On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 7:17 AM, Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> wrote: > From: John Hurley <john.hur...@netronome.com> > > When multiple netdevs are attached to a tc offload block and register for > callbacks, a rule added to the block will be propogated to all netdevs. > Previously these were detected as duplicates (based on cookie) and > rejected. Modify the rule nfp lookup function to optionally include an > ingress netdev and a host context along with the cookie value when > searching for a rule. When a new rule is passed to the driver, the netdev > the rule is to be attached to is considered when searching for dublicates.
so if the same rule (cookie) is provided to the driver through multiple ingress devices you will not reject it -- what is the use case for that, is it block sharing?
