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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next,v4 08/12] drivers: net: use flow block API
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 21:51:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190813195126.ilwtoljk2csco73m@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75eec70e-60de-e33b-aea0-be595ca625f4@solarflare.com>

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 06:50:09PM +0100, Edward Cree wrote:
> On 09/07/2019 21:55, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > This patch updates flow_block_cb_setup_simple() to use the flow block API.
> > Several drivers are also adjusted to use it.
> >
> > This patch introduces the per-driver list of flow blocks to account for
> > blocks that are already in use.
> >
> > Remove tc_block_offload alias.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
> > ---
> > v4: fix typo in list in nfp driver - Jakub Kicinski.
> >     Move driver_list handling to the driver code, this list is transitional,
> >     until drivers are updated to support multiple subsystems. No more
> >     driver_list handling from core.
> 
> Pablo, can you explain (because this commit message doesn't) why these per-
>  driver lists are needed, and what the information/state is that has module
>  (rather than, say, netdevice) scope?

The idea is to update drivers to support one flow_block per subsystem,
one for ethtool, one for tc, and so on. So far, existing drivers only
allow for binding one single flow_block to one of the existing
subsystems. So this limitation applies at driver level.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-13 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-09 20:55 [PATCH net-next,v4 00/11] netfilter: add hardware offload infrastructure Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-07-09 20:55 ` [PATCH net-next,v4 01/12] net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_setup_simple() Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-07-09 20:55 ` [PATCH net-next,v4 02/12] net: flow_offload: rename TC_BLOCK_{UN}BIND to FLOW_BLOCK_{UN}BIND Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-07-09 20:55 ` [PATCH net-next,v4 03/12] net: flow_offload: rename TCF_BLOCK_BINDER_TYPE_* to FLOW_BLOCK_BINDER_TYPE_* Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-07-09 20:55 ` [PATCH net-next,v4 04/12] net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_alloc() and flow_block_cb_free() Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-07-09 20:55 ` [PATCH net-next,v4 05/12] net: flow_offload: add list handling functions Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-07-10  7:36   ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-10  9:06     ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-09 20:55 ` [PATCH net-next,v4 06/12] net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_{priv,incref,decref}() Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-07-09 20:55 ` [PATCH net-next,v4 07/12] net: sched: use flow block API Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-08-14 16:32   ` Edward Cree
2019-08-16  1:10     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-07-09 20:55 ` [PATCH net-next,v4 08/12] drivers: net: " Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-07-10  8:01   ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-12 17:50   ` Edward Cree
2019-08-13 19:51     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2019-08-14 16:17       ` Edward Cree
2019-08-16  1:04         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-08-16 17:00           ` Edward Cree
2019-07-09 20:55 ` [PATCH net-next,v4 09/12] net: sched: remove tcf " Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-07-09 20:55 ` [PATCH net-next,v4 10/12] net: flow_offload: add flow_block_cb_is_busy() and use it Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-07-09 20:55 ` [PATCH net-next,v4 11/12] net: flow_offload: rename tc_cls_flower_offload to flow_cls_offload Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-07-09 20:55 ` [PATCH net-next,v4 12/12] netfilter: nf_tables: add hardware offload support Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-07-10  7:52   ` Jiri Pirko
2019-07-11  0:18     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-07-09 21:43 ` [PATCH net-next,v4 00/11] netfilter: add hardware offload infrastructure David Miller

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