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net/sched: cls_flower: Add offload support using egress Hardware device

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In order to support hardware offloading when the device given by the tc
rule is different from the Hardware underline device, extract the mirred
(egress) device from the tc action when a filter is added, using the new
tc_action_ops, get_dev().

Flower caches the information about the mirred device and use it for
calling ndo_setup_tc in filter change, update stats and delete.

Calling ndo_setup_tc of the mirred (egress) device instead of the
ingress device will allow a resolution between the software ingress
device and the underline hardware device.

The resolution will take place inside the offloading driver using
'egress_device' flag added to tc_to_netdev struct which is provided to
the offloading driver.

Signed-off-by: Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Hadar Hen Zion 2016-12-01 14:06:37 +02:00 • committed by David S. Miller
parent 255cb30425
commit 7091d8c705
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@ -802,6 +802,7 @@ struct tc_to_netdev {
struct tc_cls_matchall_offload *cls_mall;
struct tc_cls_bpf_offload *cls_bpf;
};
bool egress_dev;
};
/* These structures hold the attributes of xdp state that are being passed