# Re: \[PATCH/RFC net-next 3/9\] nfp: provide infrastructure for offloading flower based TC filters

- From: Simon Horman \<hidden\>
- Date: 2017-06-28 08:12:49 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2017/06/11058709
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2017/06/11058675/t.md

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On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:13:06PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 01:21:43 +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
> > From: Pieter Jansen van Vuuren <redacted>
> > 
> > Adds a flower based TC offload handler for representor devices, this
> > is in addition to the bpf based offload handler. The changes in this
> > patch will be used in a follow-up patch to add tc flower offload to
> > the NFP.
> > 
> > The flower app enables tc offloads on representors by default.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pieter Jansen van Vuuren <redacted>
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <redacted>
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c
> > index ab68a8f58862..7b27871f489c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c
> > @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
> >  #include <net/devlink.h>
> >  #include <net/dst_metadata.h>
> >  
> > +#include "main.h"
> >  #include "../nfpcore/nfp_cpp.h"
> >  #include "../nfpcore/nfp_nsp.h"
> >  #include "../nfp_app.h"
> > @@ -303,8 +304,14 @@ static int nfp_flower_vnic_init(struct nfp_app *app, struct nfp_net *nn,
> >  	eth_hw_addr_random(nn->dp.netdev);
> >  	netif_keep_dst(nn->dp.netdev);
> >  
> > +	if (nfp_flower_repr_init(app))
> > +		goto err_free_priv;
> 
> Please make the contents of nfp_flower_repr_init() part of app's .init
> callback.

Thanks, I will fix this up and other comments relating to
nfp_flower_repr_init()

> >  	return 0;
> >  
> > +err_free_priv:
> > +	kfree(app->priv);
> > +	app->priv = NULL;
> 
> This doesn't belong here after my recent series.  priv init was moved
> to app's init callback.
> 
> >  err_invalid_port:
> >  	nn->port = nfp_port_alloc(app, NFP_PORT_INVALID, nn->dp.netdev);
> >  	return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(nn->port);
> 
> > +int nfp_flower_repr_init(struct nfp_app *app)
> > +{
> > +	u64 version;
> > +	int err;
> > +
> > +	version = nfp_rtsym_read_le(app->pf->rtbl, "hw_flower_version", &err);
> > +	if (err)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> 
> Nit: this could return err directly.  Also I think it's worth printing
> an error message.
> 
> > +	/* We need to ensure hardware has enough flower capabilities. */
> > +	if (version != NFP_FLOWER_ALLOWED_VER)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> 
> Here we should definitely tell the user what went wrong.
> 
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c
> > index bc9108071e5b..a73b311c1f75 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c
> > @@ -250,6 +250,18 @@ static int nfp_repr_open(struct net_device *netdev)
> >  	return nfp_app_repr_open(repr->app, repr);
> >  }
> >  
> > +static int
> > +nfp_repr_setup_tc(struct net_device *netdev, u32 handle, u32 chain_index,
> > +		  __be16 proto, struct tc_to_netdev *tc)
> > +{
> > +	struct nfp_repr *repr = netdev_priv(netdev);
> > +
> > +	if (chain_index)
> > +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > +
> > +	return nfp_app_setup_tc(repr->app, netdev, handle, proto, tc);
> > +}
> 
> Just a reminder that this could be a nfp_port function.

Sure, will do.
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