On 8/2/2017 5:02 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: > On 17-08-01 10:13 PM, Nambiar, Amritha wrote: >> >> On 8/1/2017 3:56 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: >>> On 17-07-31 08:38 PM, Amritha Nambiar wrote: >>>> This patch enables tc-flower based hardware offloads. tc/flower >>>> filter provided by the kernel is configured as driver specific >>>> cloud filter. The patch implements functions and admin queue >>>> commands needed to support cloud filters in the driver and >>>> adds cloud filters to configure these tc-flower filters. >>>> >>>> The only action supported is to redirect packets to a traffic class >>>> on the same device. >>>> >>>> # tc qdisc add dev eth0 ingress >>>> # ethtool -K eth0 hw-tc-offload on >>>> >>>> # tc filter add dev eth0 protocol ip parent ffff:\ >>>> prio 1 flower dst_mac 3c:fd:fe:a0:d6:70 skip_sw indev eth0\ >>>> action mirred ingress redirect dev eth0 tc 0 >>>> >>> >>> Out of curiosity - did you need to say "indev eth0" there? >> >> It looks like I don't need to specify "indev eth0". I will need to look >> up how this part is offloaded and probably validate in the driver when >> this is specified. >> >>> Also: Is it possible to add an skbmark? Example something like >>> these that directs two flows to the same queue but different >>> skb marks: >>> >>> # tc filter add dev eth0 protocol ip parent ffff: \ >>> prio 2 flower dst_ip 192.168.3.5/32 \ >>> ip_proto udp dst_port 2a skip_sw \ >>> action skbedit mark 11 \ >>> action mirred ingress redirect dev eth0 tcqueue 1 >>> >>> # tc filter add dev eth0 protocol ip parent ffff: \ >>> prio 1 flower dst_mac 3c:fd:fe:a0:d6:70 skip_sw \ >>> action skbedit mark 12 \ >>> action mirred ingress redirect dev eth0 tcqueue 1 >>> >> >> It is possible to support the skbedit mark action for the first rule >> here (L3 and L4) which I can take up in a subsequent patch, but this >> cannot be supported on our device for L2 based match in the second rule. >> > > Ok, thanks. So the issue is one of hardware limitation? >
Right. Our hardware does not have this support now. > cheers, > jamal >
