Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 0/2] net:sched: Introduce tc flower2 classifier based on PANDA parser in kernel

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 1:02 PM Felipe Magno de Almeida
[off-list ref] wrote:

The PANDA parser, introduced in [1], addresses most of these problems
and introduces a developer friendly highly maintainable approach to
adding extensions to the parser. This RFC patch takes a known consumer
of flow dissector - tc flower - and  shows how it could make use of
the PANDA Parser by mostly cutnpaste of the flower code. The new
classifier is called "flower2". The control semantics of flower are
maintained but the flow dissector parser is replaced with a PANDA
Parser. The iproute2 patch is sent separately - but you'll notice
other than replacing the user space tc commands with "flower2"  the
syntax is exactly the same. To illustrate the flexibility of PANDA we
show a simple use case of the issues described in [2] when flower
consumes PANDA. The PANDA Parser is part of the PANDA programming
model for network datapaths, this is described in
https://github.com/panda-net/panda.

My only concern is that is there any way to reuse flower code instead
of duplicating most of them? Especially when you specifically mentioned
flower2 has the same user-space syntax as flower, this makes code
reusing more reasonable.

Thanks.