netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] Mellanox 100G SRIOV offloads vlan push/pop

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Date:   Fri, 23 Sep 2016 07:22:42 -0400 (EDT)
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,
        amirv@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] Mellanox 100G SRIOV offloads vlan push/pop

From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 20:01:40 +0300

> From Or Gerlitz:
> 
> This series further enhances the SRIOV TC offloads of mlx5 to handle
> the TC vlan push and pop actions. This serves a common use-case in
> virtualization systems where the virtual switch add (push) vlan tags
> to packets sent from VMs and removes (pop) vlan tags before the packet
> is received by the VM. We use the new E-Switch switchdev mode and the
> TC vlan action to achieve that also in SW defined SRIOV environments by
> offloading TC rules that contain this action along with forwarding
> (TC mirred/redirect action) the packet.
> 
> In the first patch we add some helpers to access the TC vlan action info
> by offloading drivers. The next five patches don't add any new functionality,
> they do some refactoring and cleanups in the current code to be used next.
> 
> The seventh patch deals with supporting vlans by the mlx5 e-switch in switchdev
> mode. The eighth patch does the vlan action offload from TC and the last patch
> adds matching for vlans as typically required by TC flows that involve vlan
> pop action.
> 
> The series was applied on top of commit 524605e "cxgb4: Convert to use simple_open()"

Series applied, thanks.