Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] net/mlx5: prepare to add E-switch rule flags check

[Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>]

Tuesday, November 13, 2018 3:21 PM, Shahaf Shuler:
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] net/mlx5: prepare to add E-switch rule
> flags check
> 
> Monday, November 12, 2018 10:02 PM, Slava Ovsiienko:
> > Subject: [PATCH 0/4] net/mlx5: prepare to add E-switch rule flags
> > check
> >
> > The tc flower filter rules are used to control E-switch from the
> > application side. In order to gain garanteed rule hardware offload the
> > skip_sw flag should be specified while applying the rule. Some tc
> > rules is rejected by kernel if skip_sw flag is set by design.
> > Currently this regards VXLAN tunneling rules only, which are applied to
> special VXLAN virtual devices.
> >
> > Albeit these rules should be applied with no skip_sw flag set the
> > kernel tries to perform hardware offload. If kernel succeeded the
> > in_hw flag is set in rule properties and application may check this
> > flag to get know whether the applied rule is actually hardware offloaded.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
> >
> 
> Hi Slava,
> In general looks good. Please see few comments.
> 
> In addition, please make the signed-of name and the author name match for
> the next version.

Series applied to next-net-mlx, with modification of the author name. Thanks.