Subject: Re: [patch net-next 1/7] skbuff: Add the offload_mr_fwd_mark field

From: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:49:03 +0200

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 07:34:09PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> From: Yotam Gigi <[email-masked]>
> 
> Similarly to the offload_fwd_mark field, the offload_mr_fwd_mark field is
> used to allow partial offloading of MFC multicast routes.

> The reason why the already existing "offload_fwd_mark" bit cannot be used
> is that a switchdev driver would want to make the distinction between a
> packet that has already gone through L2 forwarding but did not go through
> multicast forwarding, and a packet that has already gone through both L2
> and multicast forwarding.

Hi Jiri

So we are talking about l2 vs l3. So why not call this
offload_l3_fwd_mark?

Is there anything really specific to multicast here?

   Thanks
      Andrew