net/sched: cls_flower: Add offload support using egress Hardware device

In order to support hardware offloading when the device given by the tc
rule is different from the Hardware underline device, extract the mirred
(egress) device from the tc action when a filter is added, using the new
tc_action_ops, get_dev().

Flower caches the information about the mirred device and use it for
calling ndo_setup_tc in filter change, update stats and delete.

Calling ndo_setup_tc of the mirred (egress) device instead of the
ingress device will allow a resolution between the software ingress
device and the underline hardware device.

The resolution will take place inside the offloading driver using
'egress_device' flag added to tc_to_netdev struct which is provided to
the offloading driver.

Signed-off-by: Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/sched/cls_api.c b/net/sched/cls_api.c
index b05d4a2..3fbba79 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c
@@ -682,6 +682,30 @@ int tcf_exts_dump_stats(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tcf_exts *exts)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tcf_exts_dump_stats);
 
+int tcf_exts_get_dev(struct net_device *dev, struct tcf_exts *exts,
+		     struct net_device **hw_dev)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT
+	const struct tc_action *a;
+	LIST_HEAD(actions);
+
+	if (tc_no_actions(exts))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	tcf_exts_to_list(exts, &actions);
+	list_for_each_entry(a, &actions, list) {
+		if (a->ops->get_dev) {
+			a->ops->get_dev(a, dev_net(dev), hw_dev);
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+	if (*hw_dev)
+		return 0;
+#endif
+	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(tcf_exts_get_dev);
+
 static int __init tc_filter_init(void)
 {
 	rtnl_register(PF_UNSPEC, RTM_NEWTFILTER, tc_ctl_tfilter, NULL, NULL);