diff --git a/man/man8/tc-flower.8 b/man/man8/tc-flower.8
index df4d8e19..9ae10e6f 100644
--- a/man/man8/tc-flower.8
+++ b/man/man8/tc-flower.8
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ flower \- flow based traffic control filter
 .ti -8
 .IR MATCH " := { "
 .B indev
-.IR ifname " | { "
+.IR ifname " | "
+.BR skip_sw " | " skip_hw
+.R " | { "
 .BR dst_mac " | " src_mac " } "
 .IR mac_address " | "
 .BR eth_type " { " ipv4 " | " ipv6 " | "
@@ -55,6 +57,13 @@ is the name of an interface which must exist at the time of
 .B tc
 invocation.
 .TP
+.BI skip_sw
+Do not process filter by software. If hardware has no offload support for this
+filter, or TC offload is not enabled for the interface, operation will fail.
+.TP
+.BI skip_hw
+Do not process filter by hardware.
+.TP
 .BI dst_mac " mac_address"
 .TQ
 .BI src_mac " mac_address"
diff --git a/tc/f_flower.c b/tc/f_flower.c
index fd2014b3..7b46ceb1 100644
--- a/tc/f_flower.c
+++ b/tc/f_flower.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 static void explain(void)
 {
 	fprintf(stderr, "Usage: ... flower [ MATCH-LIST ]\n");
+	fprintf(stderr, "                  [ skip_sw | skip_hw ]\n");
 	fprintf(stderr, "                  [ action ACTION-SPEC ] [ classid CLASSID ]\n");
 	fprintf(stderr, "\n");
 	fprintf(stderr, "Where: MATCH-LIST := [ MATCH-LIST ] MATCH\n");
@@ -167,6 +168,7 @@ static int flower_parse_opt(struct filter_util *qu, char *handle,
 	struct rtattr *tail;
 	__be16 eth_type = TC_H_MIN(t->tcm_info);
 	__u8 ip_proto = 0xff;
+	__u32 flags = 0;
 
 	if (handle) {
 		ret = get_u32(&t->tcm_handle, handle, 0);
@@ -196,6 +198,10 @@ static int flower_parse_opt(struct filter_util *qu, char *handle,
 				return -1;
 			}
 			addattr_l(n, MAX_MSG, TCA_FLOWER_CLASSID, &handle, 4);
+		} else if (matches(*argv, "skip_hw") == 0) {
+			flags |= TCA_CLS_FLAGS_SKIP_HW;
+		} else if (matches(*argv, "skip_sw") == 0) {
+			flags |= TCA_CLS_FLAGS_SKIP_SW;
 		} else if (matches(*argv, "indev") == 0) {
 			char ifname[IFNAMSIZ];
 
@@ -294,6 +300,8 @@ static int flower_parse_opt(struct filter_util *qu, char *handle,
 	}
 
 parse_done:
+	addattr32(n, MAX_MSG, TCA_FLOWER_FLAGS, flags);
+
 	ret = addattr16(n, MAX_MSG, TCA_FLOWER_KEY_ETH_TYPE, eth_type);
 	if (ret) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Illegal \"eth_type\"(0x%x)\n",
@@ -498,6 +506,15 @@ static int flower_print_opt(struct filter_util *qu, FILE *f,
 			  tb[TCA_FLOWER_KEY_TCP_SRC],
 			  tb[TCA_FLOWER_KEY_UDP_SRC]);
 
+	if (tb[TCA_FLOWER_FLAGS])  {
+		__u32 flags = rta_getattr_u32(tb[TCA_FLOWER_FLAGS]);
+
+		if (flags & TCA_CLS_FLAGS_SKIP_HW)
+			fprintf(f, "\n  skip_hw");
+		if (flags & TCA_CLS_FLAGS_SKIP_SW)
+			fprintf(f, "\n  skip_sw");
+	}
+
 	if (tb[TCA_FLOWER_ACT]) {
 		tc_print_action(f, tb[TCA_FLOWER_ACT]);
 	}