Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 06:21:26AM CET, jakub.kicin...@netronome.com wrote:
>From: John Hurley <john.hur...@netronome.com>
>
>Currently drivers can register to receive TC block bind/unbind callbacks
>by implementing the setup_tc ndo in any of their given netdevs. However,
>drivers may also be interested in binds to higher level devices (e.g.
>tunnel drivers) to potentially offload filters applied to them.
>
>Introduce indirect block devs which allows drivers to register callbacks
>for block binds on other devices. The callback is triggered when the
>device is bound to a block, allowing the driver to register for rules
>applied to that block using already available functions.
>
>Freeing an indirect block callback will trigger an unbind event (if
>necessary) to direct the driver to remove any offloaded rules and unreg
>any block rule callbacks. It is the responsibility of the implementing
>driver to clean any registered indirect block callbacks before exiting,
>if the block it still active at such a time.
>
>Allow registering an indirect block dev callback for a device that is
>already bound to a block. In this case (if it is an ingress block),
>register and also trigger the callback meaning that any already installed
>rules can be replayed to the calling driver.
>
>Signed-off-by: John Hurley <john.hur...@netronome.com>
>Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>

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