On 13 Jan 2026, at 23:55, Ilya Maximets wrote:

> On 1/12/26 12:20 PM, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
>> Relocate the tc flow dump functionality from netdev-offload
>> to dpif-offload, centralizing flow dump handling in the
>> dpif-offload layer.
>>
>> Acked-by: Eli Britstein <elibr.nvidia.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>
>> v2 changes:
>>   - Use ovs_mutex_destroy() instead of ovs_mutex_init() in
>>     dpif_offload_tc_flow_dump_destroy().
>> ---

[...]

>> +/* tc's flow dump specific data structures. */
>> +struct dpif_offload_tc_flow_dump {
>
> This is not used outside this module.  Can we call it tc_flow_dump?
>
> In general, the naming between dpif-offload-tc.c and dpif-offload-tc-netdev.c
> later in the set is a little hard to understand.  First of all, there are
> many functions and structures that are not used outside of dpif-offload-tc*
> and so can have shorter names.  Secondly, the netdev_offload_tc_* namnig
> is confusing, at least while reviewing this set.  ANd it gets in the way
> when just reading the code as well.
>
> So, I'd suggest to name things that are only used within the dpif-offload-tc-*
> modules with the tc_ prefix and use extra identification for sub-modules,
> e.g. tc_netdev_* for local functions in dpif-offload-tc-netdev.c.
> Note, this applies to provider class implementation methods that are
> technically local to the module as well.
>
> So, for example we'd have:
>
> struct dpif_offload_tc_flow_dump          --> struct tc_flow_dump
> struct dpif_offload_tc_flow_dump_thread   --> struct tc_flow_dump_thread
> struct netdev_tc_flow_dump                --> struct tc_netdev_flow_dump
> dpif_offload_tc_flow_dump_create          --> tc_flow_dump_create
> dpif_offload_tc_netdev_match_to_dpif_flow --> tc_match_to_dpif_flow
> dpif_offload_tc_flow_dump_next            --> tc_flow_dump_next
> netdev_offload_tc_flow_dump_next          --> tc_netdev_flow_dump_next
> netdev_offload_tc_flow_flush              --> tc_netdev_flow_flush
>
> WDYT?
> Same applies to other offlaod providers.
>
> There is a slight chance for the clash with lib/tc.{c,h}, but all the
> names above have 'flow' or could have 'flow' in them, that would
> differenciate.
>
> Alternatively, we can go with a more surgical approach and just fix
> some of the most scary one, e.g. dpif_offload_tc_netdev_match_to_dpif_flow,
> as the function calls in () are not looking
> particularly great.

I think it would be good to clean this up, but I’d rather do this in a separate 
patch once this series is applied due to the amount of churn in the individual 
patches.

So for this series, I would like to go with the surgical approach:

dpif_offload_tc_netdev_match_to_dpif_flow() --> tc_netdev_match_to_dpif_flow()
struct dpif_offload_tc_flow_dump            --> struct tc_flow_dump
struct dpif_offload_tc_flow_dump_thread     --> struct tc_flow_dump_thread
struct netdev_tc_flow_dump                  --> struct tc_netdev_flow_dump
dpif_offload_tc_flow_dump_create            --> tc_flow_dump_create
dpif_offload_tc_netdev_match_to_dpif_flow   --> tc_match_to_dpif_flow
dpif_offload_tc_flow_dump_next              --> tc_flow_dump_next
netdev_offload_tc_flow_dump_next            --> tc_netdev_flow_dump_next
netdev_offload_tc_flow_flush                --> tc_netdev_flow_flush

Anything else for this series that you want changed?

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