Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 11/12] nfp: add flower app

From: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:59:35 +0200

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:04:17PM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:36 AM, Simon Horman
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > Add app for flower offload. At this point the PF netdev and phys port
> > representor netdevs are initialised. Follow-up work will add support for
> > VF and PF representors and beyond that offloading the flower classifier.
> 
> FWIW, repeating here my comment made on the V1 cover letter, in case you
> want to discuss it here V2 -- the VF reps can apply for more use cases
> beyond flower offload -- e.g FDB or FIB offloads and also the other way
> around, flower offloads can apply to more use cases beyond SRIOV, as any
> easy example, you can offload native NIC RX TC rule (drop, header
> re-write, etc).
> 
> Not sure why you want to make this tie

Lets discuss in the v1 thread as I have now replied there.