Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: flow_offload: mangle 128-bit packet field with one action

[Edward Cree]

On 20/08/2019 15:44, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> It looks to me this limitation is coming from tc pedit.
>
> Four actions to mangle an IPv6 address consume more memory when making
> the translation, and if you expect a lot of rules.
Your change means that now every pedit uses four hw entries, even if it
 was only meant to be a 32-bit mangle.  Host memory used to keep track of
 the pedit actions is cheap, hw entries in pedit tables are not.  Nor is
 driver implementation complexity.
NAK.