On Thu, 9 May 2019 18:39:49 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patchset adds initial hardware offload support for nftables through
> the existing netdev_ops->ndo_setup_tc() interface, the TC_SETUP_CLSFLOWER
> classifier and the flow rule API.
>
> Patch 1 move the flow block callback infrastructure to
> net/core/flow_offload.c. More structure and enumeration definitions
> currently in include/net/pkt_cls.h can be also there to reuse this from
> the netfilter codebase.
>
> Patch 2 adds hardware offload support for nftables.
>
> This patchset depends on a previous patchset:
>
> [PATCH net-next,RFC 0/9] net: sched: prepare to reuse per-block
> callbacks from netfilter
>
> More information at:
> https://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=155623884016026&w=2
>
> Comments welcome, thanks.
Jiri requested the drivers remember the block info, so we can't have
multiple block binds right now, unless we fix drivers. See:
commit d6787147e15d ("net/sched: remove block pointer from common
offload structure")
for example.
