[Bug 1735248] Re: HW offload support for set actions

[James Page]

Uploaded with snapshot for branch-2.9 into Bionic

** Changed in: openvswitch (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Committed

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Title:
  HW offload support for set actions

Status in openvswitch package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Description:

  As of v2.8 Open vSwitch may program flows into the kernel and hardware
  using TC-Flower. This is a mechanism to allow acceleration of OvS
  using hardware such as Netronome SmartNICs.

  The scope of this bug is to add set-action support to TC-based offload
  of Open vSwitch.

  Status:

  Accepted upstream for inclusion in v2.9.

  Upstream patches:

  a7ce5b852911 tc: Send csum action only if we need to update csum
  fbaf1bf9ef69 tc: Fix wrong struct variable order
  518bbe9971e4 netdev-tc-offloads: Remove redundant loop handling ovs action set
  e13bbbab3cf8 netdev-tc-offloads: Remove redundant brackets
  d6118e628988 netdev-tc-offloads: Verify csum flags on dump from tc
  408671c4655e netdev-tc-offloads: Fix accidental skipping of extended pedit keys
  6e1a6bfd9977 netdev-tc-offloads: Fix travis compilation error

  1ae83bb20677 netdev-tc-offloads: Add support for action set
  8ada482bbe19 tc: Add header rewrite using tc pedit action
  0aee3827559b odp-util: Expose ovs flow key attr len table for reuse
  e5b1657e6f67 compat: Add act_pedit compatibility for old kernels

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