net/mlx5e: Split nic tc flow allocation and creation
For future support of CT offload with nic tc flows, where the flow rule is not created immediately but rather following a future event, the patch is splitting the nic rule creation and deletion into 2 parts: 1. Creating/Deleting and setting the rule attributes. 2. Creating/Deleting the flow table and flow rule itself. This way the attributes can be prepared and stored in the flow handle when the tc flow is created but the rule can actually be created at any point in the future, using these pre allocated attributes. Signed-off-by: Ariel Levkovich <lariel@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
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