[Intel-wired-lan] [RFC PATCH v3 2/7] sched: act_mirred: Traffic class option for mirror/redirect action

[Nambiar, Amritha]

On 9/13/2017 6:18 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:59:24AM CEST, amritha.nambiar at intel.com wrote:
>> Adds optional traffic class parameter to the mirror/redirect action.
>> The mirror/redirect action is extended to forward to a traffic
>> class on the device if the traffic class index is provided in
>> addition to the device's ifindex.
> 
> Do I understand it correctly that you just abuse mirred to pas tcclass
> index down to the driver, without actually doing anything with the value
> inside mirred-code ? That is a bit confusing for me.
> 

I think I get your point, I was looking at it more from a hardware
angle, and the 'redirect' action looked quite close to how this actually
works in the hardware. I agree the tclass value in the mirred-code is
not very useful other than offloading it.