Re: [net-next] net: sched: extend flow action with RSS

[Jamal Hadi Salim]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 2:12 AM Hariprasad Kelam <hkelam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch extends current flow action with RSS, such that
> the user can install flower offloads with action RSS followed
> by a group id. Since this is done in hardware skip_sw flag
> is enforced.

Our typical rule for TC is we need s/w equivalence for offloads. How
would this work in absence of offload?

cheers,
jamal

> Example:
> In a multi rss group supported NIC,
>
> rss group #1 flow hash indirection table populated with rx queues 1 to 4
> rss group #2 flow hash indirection table populated with rx queues 5 to 9
>
> $tc filter add dev eth1 ingress protocol ip flower ip_proto tcp dst_port
> 443 action skbedit rss_group 1 skip_sw
>
> Packets destined to tcp port 443 will be distributed among rx queues 1 to 4
>
> $tc filter add dev eth1 ingress protocol ip flower ip_proto udp dst_port
> 8080 action skbedit rss_group 2 skip_sw
>
> Packets destined to udp port 8080 will be distributed among rx queues
> 5 to 9