RE:Re: [v1,net-next 3/4] net: qos: police action add index for tc flower offloading

[Po Liu]

Hi Ido,

Sorry, ignore previous email.

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> Subject: Re: [v1,net-next 3/4] net: qos: police action add index for tc
> flower offloading
> 
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 02:34:11PM +0800, Po Liu wrote:
> > From: Po Liu <Po.Liu@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Hardware may own many entries for police flow. So that make one(or
> >  multi) flow to be policed by one hardware entry. This patch add the
> > police action index provide to the driver side make it mapping the
> > driver hardware entry index.
> 
> Maybe first mention that it is possible for multiple filters in software to
> share the same policer. Something like:
> 
> "
> It is possible for several tc filters to share the same police action by
> specifying the action's index when installing the filters.
> 
> Propagate this index to device drivers through the flow offload
> intermediate representation, so that drivers could share a single hardware
> policer between multiple filters.
> "
> 

Thanks, I would change this commit message.

> >
> > Signed-off-by: Po Liu <Po.Liu@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/net/flow_offload.h | 1 +
> >  net/sched/cls_api.c        | 1 +
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/net/flow_offload.h b/include/net/flow_offload.h
> > index c2ef19c6b27d..eed98075b1ae 100644
> > --- a/include/net/flow_offload.h
> > +++ b/include/net/flow_offload.h
> > @@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ struct flow_action_entry {
> >                       bool                    truncate;
> >               } sample;
> >               struct {                                /* FLOW_ACTION_POLICE */
> > +                     u32                     index;
> >                       s64                     burst;
> >                       u64                     rate_bytes_ps;
> >                       u32                     mtu;
> > diff --git a/net/sched/cls_api.c b/net/sched/cls_api.c index
> > 6aba7d5ba1ec..fdc4c89ca1fa 100644
> > --- a/net/sched/cls_api.c
> > +++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c
> > @@ -3659,6 +3659,7 @@ int tc_setup_flow_action(struct flow_action
> *flow_action,
> >                       entry->police.rate_bytes_ps =
> >                               tcf_police_rate_bytes_ps(act);
> >                       entry->police.mtu = tcf_police_tcfp_mtu(act);
> > +                     entry->police.index = act->tcfa_index;
> >               } else if (is_tcf_ct(act)) {
> >                       entry->id = FLOW_ACTION_CT;
> >                       entry->ct.action = tcf_ct_action(act);
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >


Br,
Po Liu