From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, saeedm@mellanox.com,
pablo@netfilter.org, ecree@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 0/3] flow_offload: follow-ups to HW stats type patchset
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:40:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200312124013.06609fbc@kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200312070359.GA2221@nanopsycho.orion>
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 08:03:59 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 09:30:28PM CET, kuba@kernel.org wrote:
> >On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:19:55 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >> Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 08:05:19PM CET, kuba@kernel.org wrote:
> >> >On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:49:06 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >> >> This patchset includes couple of patches in reaction to the discussions
> >> >> to the original HW stats patchset. The first patch is a fix,
> >> >> the other two patches are basically cosmetics.
> >> >
> >> >Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> >> >
> >> >This problem already exists, but writing a patch for nfp I noticed that
> >> >there is no way for this:
> >> >
> >> > if (!flow_action_hw_stats_types_check(flow_action, extack,
> >> > FLOW_ACTION_HW_STATS_TYPE_DELAYED_BIT))
> >> > return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >> >
> >> >to fit on a line for either bit, which kind of sucks.
> >>
> >> Yeah, I was thinking about having flow_action_hw_stats_types_check as a
> >> macro and then just simply have:
> >>
> >> if (!flow_action_hw_stats_types_check(flow_action, extack, DELAYED))
> >> return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >>
> >> WDYT?
> >
> >I'd rather have the 80+ lines than not be able to grep for it :(
> >
> >What's wrong with flow_action_stats_ok()? Also perhaps, flow_act
> >as a prefix?
>
> Well nothing, just that we'd loose consistency. Everything is
> "flow_action_*" and also, the name you suggest might indicate that you
> are checking sw stats. :/
SW stats in flow action? flow stuff is an abstraction for HW/drivers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-12 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-10 15:49 [patch net-next 0/3] flow_offload: follow-ups to HW stats type patchset Jiri Pirko
2020-03-10 15:49 ` [patch net-next 1/3] flow_offload: fix allowed types check Jiri Pirko
2020-03-10 15:49 ` [patch net-next 2/3] flow_offload: turn hw_stats_type into dedicated enum Jiri Pirko
2020-03-10 15:49 ` [patch net-next 3/3] flow_offload: restrict driver to pass one allowed bit to flow_action_hw_stats_types_check() Jiri Pirko
2020-03-10 17:47 ` [patch net-next 0/3] flow_offload: follow-ups to HW stats type patchset Edward Cree
2020-03-10 19:05 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-11 7:19 ` Jiri Pirko
2020-03-11 20:30 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-12 7:03 ` Jiri Pirko
2020-03-12 19:40 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2020-03-10 23:04 ` David Miller
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