From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:44:42 -0800
> Hi! > > I've dropped the tests from the series because test_offloads.py changes > will conflict with bpf-next patches. I will send four more patches with > tests once bpf-next is merged back, hopefully still making it into 4.16 :) > > v4: > - rebase on top of Alex's changes. > > --- > > Quentin says: > > This series tries to improve user experience when eBPF hardware offload > hits error paths at load time. In particular, it introduces netlink > extended ack support in the nfp driver. > > To that aim, transmission of the pointer to the extack object is piped > through the `change()` operation of the existing classifiers (patch 1 to > 6). Then it is used for TC offload in the nfp driver (patch 8) and in > netdevsim (patch 9, selftest in patch 10). Patch 7 adds a helper to handle > extack messages in the core when TC offload is disabled on the net device. > > For completeness extack is propagated for classifiers other than cls_bpf, > but it's up to the drivers to make use of it. Series applied, thanks Jakub.
