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DISCUSSION Wei Hu (Xavier) 2 participants 2 messages Mar 17, 2018

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Hi, David

The TC Flower Classifier allows control of packets based on flows
determined by matching of well-known packet fields and metadata.
Offload of the TC Flower classifier and related modules provides a
powerful mechanism to both increase throughput and reduce CPU utilisation for users of such flow-based systems.

The command "ethtool -N" can provide similar function.

Now, hip08 SOC has flow classifier hardware offload capacity, which
tools we should support in HNS kernel driver?
Can you give some suggestion?

Regards
Wei Hu

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Quoted 9 lines · Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:47:23AM CET, [email protected] wrote:

Hi, David

The TC Flower Classifier allows control of packets based on flows
determined by matching of well-known packet fields and metadata.
Offload of the TC Flower classifier and related modules provides a
powerful mechanism to both increase throughput and reduce CPU utilisation for users of such flow-based systems.

The command "ethtool -N" can provide similar function.

Afaik ethtool settings is very limited to rx queue steering.

If you want more actions, like vlan modification, tunnels, forward, etc, you should use tc-flower

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Now, hip08 SOC has flow classifier hardware offload capacity, which
tools we should support in HNS kernel driver?
Can you give some suggestion?

Regards
Wei Hu