netdev - Re: [patch net-next 00/11] mlxsw qdisc refactoring

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Date:   Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:08:05 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nogahf@...lanox.com, idosch@...lanox.com,
        mlxsw@...lanox.com, jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 00/11] mlxsw qdisc refactoring

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:59:56 +0100

> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> 
> This patchset refactors the qdisc handling in mlxsw driver in order to make
> it more object oriented like.
> It helps readability, laying the groundwork for the offloading of
> additional qdiscs by the driver
> This patchset also makes the qdiscs statistics more generic.
> 
> Patch 1 moves the qdiscs declaration to the spectrum_qdisc.c
> Patches 2-3 clean the offloaded stats requests. Patch 2 changes the RED
> generic stats struct to be sharable by other offloaded qdiscs. Patch 3
> changes the xstats request to be like the stats. Note that these patches
> are outside the driver scope.
> Patches 4-5 clean the statistics related functions and structs within the
> driver.
> Patches 6-7 decrease the need for the same parameters to be sent to many
> functions.
> Patches 8-11 create a functions pointers struct, to make the qdiscs
> handling more object oriented like.

Series applied, thanks Jiri.