Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: ethtool add VxLAN to the NFC API

["huangguangbin (A)" <huangguangbin2@huawei.com>]

On 2022/8/23 0:53, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:46:14 +0800 huangguangbin (A) wrote:
>> 1. I check the manual and implement of TC flower, it doesn't seems
>>      to support configuring flows steering to a specific queue.
> 
> We got an answer from Sridhar on that one (thanks!)
> I know it was discussed so it's a SMOC.
> 
>> 2. Our hns3 driver has supported configuring some type of flows
>>      steering to a specific queue by ethtool -U command, many users
>>      have already use ethtool way.
>> 3. In addition, if our driver supports TC flower to configure flows
>>      steering to a specific queue, can we allow user to simultaneously
>>      use TC flower and ethtool to configure flow rules? Could the rules
>>      configured by TC flower be queried by ethtool -u?
>>      If two ways can be existing, I think it is more complicated for
>>      driver to manage flow rules.
> 
> I understand your motivation and these are very valid points.
> However, we have to draw the line somewhere. We have at least
> three ways of configuring flow offloads (ethtool, nft, tc).
> Supporting all of them is a lot of work for the drivers, leading
> to a situation where there's no "standard Linux API" because each
> vendor picks a slightly different approach :(
> TC seems the most popular because of the OVS offload, so my preference
> is to pick it over the other APIs.
> .
> 
Ok.