Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/6] net/sched: cls_api: Support hardware miss to tc action

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:16:40 -0800

On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:32:12 +0200 Paul Blakey wrote:
> This series adds support for hardware miss to instruct tc to continue execution
> in a specific tc action instance on a filter's action list. The mlx5 driver patch
> (besides the refactors) shows its usage instead of using just chain restore.
> 
> Currently a filter's action list must be executed all together or
> not at all as driver are only able to tell tc to continue executing from a
> specific tc chain, and not a specific filter/action.
> 
> This is troublesome with regards to action CT, where new connections should
> be sent to software (via tc chain restore), and established connections can
> be handled in hardware.

I'll mark this as Deferred - would be great if Red Hat OvS offload
folks and/or another vendor and/or Jamal gave their acks.