Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] net: flow_offload: add tc police action parameters

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Wed Apr 06 2022 - 13:06:15 EST


On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:13:31PM +0200, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 09:37:22PM +0200, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 08:52:49PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > > I'd just like the 'reclassify' action to be propagated in some reasonable
> > > way to flow offload, considering that at the moment the error is quite cryptic.
> >
> > OK, will check next week. Might be best to simply propagate extack to
> > offload_act_setup() and return a meaningful message in
> > tcf_police_offload_act_setup(). There are a bunch of other actions whose
> > callback simply returns '-EOPNOTSUPP' that can benefit from it.
>
> # tc filter add dev dummy0 ingress protocol ip flower skip_sw ip_proto icmp action police rate 100Mbit burst 10000
> Error: act_police: Offload not supported when conform/exceed action is "reclassify".
> We have an error talking to the kernel
>
> Available here:
> https://github.com/idosch/linux/commits/tc_extack
>
> I plan to submit the patches after net-next reopens.

Thanks. I've tested these partially and at least the case that I
reported is now covered.