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>
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