Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] nfp: extend match and action for flower offload

[Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>]

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 1:05 AM, Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 08:34:59AM -0700, Tom Herbert wrote:
>> Simon,
>>
>> Maybe a bit off topic, but I had the impression netronome would
>> support BPF so that filters could be programmed for arbitrary
>> protocols and fields. Is that true? If so, what is the relationship
>> between that functionality and these patches?
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> you are correct in thinking that Netronome is supporting BPF offload
> in its nfp driver. That support continues to be enhanced and supported.
>
> This patch-set relates to a different set of functionality, offload of the
> TC flower classifier. At this point there is no relationship between the
> two sets of functionality and they cannot be used at the same time;
> different firmware images are required and the driver initiates itself
> according to the firmware loaded.
>
> In future it may be possible to use both BPF and TC flower offloads at the
> same time but that is not the case at this time.
>
> Does that answer your question?

Yes... A couple of follow up questions. If someone uses tc-bpf would
that be offloaded to nfp? Is there anything that TC flower offloads
can do that the BPF solution can't do?

Thanks,
Tom