On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 11:18:27 -0800 Saeed Mahameed wrote: > From: Jianbo Liu <[email protected]> > > Miss path handling of tc multi chain filters (i.e. filters that are > defined on chain > 0) requires the hardware to communicate to the > driver the last chain that was processed. This is possible only when > the hardware is capable of performing the combination of modify header > and forward to table actions. Currently, if the hardware is missing > this capability then the driver only offloads rules that are defined > on tc chain 0 prio 1. However, this restriction can be relaxed because > packets that miss from chain 0 are processed through all the > priorities by tc software. > > Allow the offload of all the supported priorities for chain 0 even > when the hardware is not capable to perform modify header and goto > table actions. > > Fixes: 0b3a8b6b5340 ("net/mlx5: E-Switch: Fix using fwd and modify when > firmware doesn't support it") > Signed-off-by: Jianbo Liu <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Oz Shlomo <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Oz Shlomo <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <[email protected]>
Sounds like a feature TBH.
