From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox•com>
To: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail•com>
Cc: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox•com>,
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat•com>,
Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox•com>,
RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@vger•kernel.org>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox•com>,
linux-netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mlx5-next v1 2/8] net/mlx5: Add support for flow table destination number
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:26:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180712212618.GS30390@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3xEMgFknMqJq=BY9SxWpPJDrm1BYBVfQWzyhYk5cdELsaoRQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 12:00:41AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel•org> wrote:
> > From: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox•com>
> >
> > Add support to set a destination from a flow table number.
> > This functionality will be used in downstream patches from this
> > series by the DEVX stuff.
>
> Reading your cover letter, I still don't understand what is missing
> in the current mlx5 fs core API for your needs. After all, you do
> create flow tables from the IB driver through fs core calls, right?
> so @ the end of the day, you have the FT pointer to provide the
> core, why you need the FT number?
Via the devx API userspace can create flow tables directly without
going to the driver's flow steering core.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-12 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-11 11:10 [PATCH rdma-next v1 0/8] Support mlx5 flow steering with RAW data Leon Romanovsky
2018-07-11 11:10 ` [PATCH mlx5-next v1 1/8] net/mlx5: Add forward compatible support for the FTE match data Leon Romanovsky
2018-07-12 20:53 ` Or Gerlitz
2018-07-15 7:26 ` Yishai Hadas
2018-07-15 8:03 ` Or Gerlitz
2018-07-15 8:26 ` Yishai Hadas
2018-07-11 11:10 ` [PATCH mlx5-next v1 2/8] net/mlx5: Add support for flow table destination number Leon Romanovsky
2018-07-12 21:00 ` Or Gerlitz
2018-07-12 21:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2018-07-12 21:51 ` Or Gerlitz
2018-07-12 22:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-07-11 11:10 ` [PATCH rdma-next v1 3/8] IB/mlx5: Introduce flow steering matcher object Leon Romanovsky
2018-07-11 11:10 ` [PATCH rdma-next v1 4/8] IB: Consider ib_flow creation by the KABI infrastructure Leon Romanovsky
2018-07-11 11:10 ` [PATCH rdma-next v1 5/8] IB/mlx5: Introduce vendor create and destroy flow methods Leon Romanovsky
2018-07-11 11:10 ` [PATCH rdma-next v1 6/8] IB/mlx5: Support adding flow steering rule by raw data Leon Romanovsky
2018-07-11 11:10 ` [PATCH rdma-next v1 7/8] IB/mlx5: Add support for a flow table destination Leon Romanovsky
2018-07-11 11:10 ` [PATCH rdma-next v1 8/8] IB/mlx5: Expose vendor flow trees Leon Romanovsky
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