On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 05:22:59PM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> From: Finn Christensen <f...@napatech.com>
> 
> AFAIK, most (if not all) NICs (including Mellanox and Intel) do not
> support a pure MARK action.  It's required to be used together with
> some other actions, like QUEUE.
> 
> To workaround it, retry with a queue action when first try failed.
> 
> Moreover, some Intel's NIC (say XL710) needs the QUEUE action set
> before the MARK action.
> 
> Co-authored-by: Yuanhan Liu <y...@fridaylinux.org>
> Signed-off-by: Finn Christensen <f...@napatech.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <y...@fridaylinux.org>

This feels a bit like the tail wagging the dog.
Is this the lowest level at which it makes sense to implement
this logic?

If so then I wonder if some sort of probing would be in order
to avoid the cost of trying to add the flow twice to hardware
where the queue is required.

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