netdev - Re: [RFC net-next v2 0/8] indirect tc block cb registration

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Date:   Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:56:39 +0100
From:   John Hurley <john.hurley@...ronome.com>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com, Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>,
        ozsh@...lanox.com, Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>, avivh@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next v2 0/8] indirect tc block cb registration

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 1:58 PM Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> wrote:
>
> Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 02:26:49PM CEST, john.hurley@...ronome.com wrote:
> >This patchset introduces an alternative to egdev offload by allowing a
> >driver to register for block updates when an external device (e.g. tunnel
> >netdev) is bound to a TC block. Drivers can track new netdevs or register
> >to existing ones to receive information on such events. Based on this,
> >they may register for block offload rules using already existing
> >functions.
> >
> >The patchset also implements this new indirect block registration in the
> >NFP driver to allow the offloading of tunnel rules. The use of egdev
> >offload (which is currently only used for tunnel offload) is subsequently
> >removed.
>
> John, I'm missing v1->v2 changelog. Could you please add it?
>
> Thanks!

Hi Jiri,
There's little change outside the NFP in v2 but here's short changelog:

v1->v2:
- free allocated owner struct in block_owner_clean function
- add geneve type helper function
- move test stub in NFP (v1 patch 2) to full tunnel offload
implementation via indirect blocks (v2 patches 3-8)