RE: [RFC/PATCH net-next v3 8/8] flow_offload: validate flags of filter and actions

[Baowen Zheng <baowen.zheng@corigine.com>]

On November 3, 2021 6:14 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>On 2021-11-03 03:57, Baowen Zheng wrote:
>> On November 2, 2021 8:40 PM, Simon Horman wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 09:38:34AM +0200, Vlad Buslov wrote:
>>>> On Mon 01 Nov 2021 at 05:29, Baowen Zheng
>
>[..]
>>>>
>>>> My suggestion was to forgo the skip_sw flag for shared action
>>>> offload and, consecutively, remove the validation code, not to add
>>>> even more checks. I still don't see a practical case where skip_sw
>>>> shared action is useful. But I don't have any strong feelings about
>>>> this flag, so if Jamal thinks it is necessary, then fine by me.
>>>
>>> FWIIW, my feelings are the same as Vlad's.
>>>
>>> I think these flags add complexity that would be nice to avoid.
>>> But if Jamal thinks its necessary, then including the flags
>>> implementation is fine by me.
>> Thanks Simon. Jamal, do you think it is necessary to keep the skip_sw
>> flag for user to specify the action should not run in software?
>>
>
>Just catching up with discussion...
>IMO, we need the flag. Oz indicated with requirement to be able to identify
>the action with an index. So if a specific action is added for skip_sw (as
>standalone or alongside a filter) then it cant be used for skip_hw. To illustrate
>using extended example:
>
>#filter 1, skip_sw
>tc filter add dev $DEV1 proto ip parent ffff: flower \
>     skip_sw ip_proto tcp action police blah index 10
>
>#filter 2, skip_hw
>tc filter add dev $DEV1 proto ip parent ffff: flower \
>     skip_hw ip_proto udp action police index 10
>
>Filter2 should be illegal.
>And when i dump the actions as so:
>tc actions ls action police
>
>For debugability, I should see index 10 clearly marked with the flag as skip_sw
>
>The other example i gave earlier which showed the sharing of actions:
>
>#add a policer action and offload it
>tc actions add action police skip_sw rate ... index 20 #now add filter1 which is
>offloaded using offloaded policer tc filter add dev $DEV1 proto ip parent ffff:
>flower \
>     skip_sw ip_proto tcp action police index 20 #add filter2 likewise offloaded
>tc filter add dev $DEV1 proto ip parent ffff: flower \
>     skip_sw ip_proto udp action police index 20
>
>All good and filter 1 and 2 are sharing policer instance with index 20.
>
>#Now add a filter3 which is s/w only
>tc filter add dev $DEV1 proto ip parent ffff: flower \
>     skip_hw ip_proto icmp action police index 20
>
>filter3 should not be allowed.
I think the use cases you mentioned above are clear for us. For the case: 

#add a policer action and offload it
tc actions add action police skip_sw rate ... index 20
#Now add a filter4 which has no flag
tc filter add dev $DEV1 proto ip parent ffff: flower \
     ip_proto icmp action police index 20

Is filter4 legal? basically, it should be legal, but since filter4 may be offloaded failed so 
it will run in software, you know the action police should not run in software with skip_sw,
so I think filter4 should be illegal and we should not allow this case. 
That is if the action is skip_sw, then the filter refers to this action should also skip_sw. 
WDYT?