netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/10] Mellanox 100G mlx5 Bulk flow statistics and SRIOV TC offloads

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:46:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	saeedm@...lanox.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ogerlitz@...lanox.com, hadarh@...lanox.com,
	jiri@...lanox.com, gospo@...ulusnetworks.com,
	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, john.r.fastabend@...el.com,
	amir@...ai.me
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/10] Mellanox 100G mlx5 Bulk flow statistics
 and SRIOV TC offloads

From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:28:56 +0300

> This series from Amir and Or deals with two enhancements for the mlx5 TC offloads.
> 
> The 1st two patches add bulk reading of flow counters. Few bulk counter queries are
> used instead of issuing thousands firmware commands per second to get statistics of all
> flows set to HW.
> 
> The next patches add TC based SRIOV offloading to mlx5, as a follow up for the e-switch
> offloads mode and the VF representors. When the e-switch is set to the (new) "offloads"
> mode, we can now offload TC/flower drop and forward rules, the forward action we offload
> is TC mirred/redirect.
> 
> The above is done by the VF representor netdevices exporting the setup_tc ndo where from
> there we're re-using and enhancing the existing mlx5 TC offloads sub-module which now
> works for both the NIC and the SRIOV cases.
> 
> The series is applied on top d3fc0353f7c7 ('ipv4: af_inet: make it explicitly non-modular')
> and it has no merge issues with the on-going net submission ('mlx5 tx timeout watchdog fixes')

Series applied, thanks.