On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 11:40:22AM +0200, Tariq Toukan wrote:

Hi,

This small series refactors the flow counter bulk initialization code
and extends it so that single flow counters are also usable by hardware
steering (HWS) rules.

Patches 1-2 refactor the bulk init path: first by factoring out common
flow counter bulk initialization into mlx5_fc_bulk_init(), then by
splitting the bitmap allocation into mlx5_fs_bulk_bitmap_alloc(), with
no functional changes.

Patch 3 initializes bulk data for counters allocated via
mlx5_fc_single_alloc(), so they can be safely used by HWS rules.

Hi Tariq,

Overall this looks good to me.
Am I correct in thinking that there will
be follow-up patches to make HWS use counters?