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Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/8] Add support for two classes of VCAP rules
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
To:     Steen Hegelund <steen.hegelund@microchip.com>,
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Date:   Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:22:10 +0100
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Hello,
On Wed, 2022-12-21 at 14:25 +0100, Steen Hegelund wrote:
> This adds support for two classes of VCAP rules:
> 
> - Permanent rules (added e.g. for PTP support)
> - TC user rules (added by the TC userspace tool)
> 
> For this to work the VCAP Loopups must be enabled from boot, so that the
> "internal" clients like PTP can add rules that are always active.
> 
> When the TC tool add a flower filter the VCAP rule corresponding to this
> filter will be disabled (kept in memory) until a TC matchall filter creates
> a link from chain 0 to the chain (lookup) where the flower filter was
> added.
> 
> When the flower filter is enabled it will be written to the appropriate
> VCAP lookup and become active in HW.
> 
> Likewise the flower filter will be disabled if there is no link from chain
> 0 to the chain of the filter (lookup), and when that happens the
> corresponding VCAP rule will be read from the VCAP instance and stored in
> memory until it is deleted or enabled again.

Despite the 'net' target, this looks really like net-next material as
most patches look like large refactor. I see there are a bunch of fixes
in patches 3-8, but quite frankly it's not obvious at all what the
refactors/new features described into the commit messages themself
really fix.

I suggest to move this series to net-next (and thus repost after Jan
2), unless you come-up with some good reasons to keep it in net.

Thanks,

Paolo