From: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudr...@intel.com> Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 17:08:21 -0700
> This set of patches export TCA_CLS_FLAGS_SKIP_HW to userspace and also > introduces another flag TCA_CLS_FLAGS_SKIP_SW. These flags enable offloading > u32 filters to either SW or HW only. > > The default semantics with no flags is to add the filter to HW if possible and > also into SW. > With SKIP_HW flag, the filter is only added to SW. > With SKIP_SW flag, the filter is added to HW and an error is returned > to user on failure. > These flags are mutually exclusive. > There was an earlier discussion on these semantics in the following email > thread. > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/401733 Series applied, thanks.
