netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] nfp: flower vxlan tunnel offload

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Date:   Wed, 27 Sep 2017 09:27:59 +0200
From:   Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] nfp: flower vxlan tunnel offload

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 09:29:03PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:23:34 +0200
> 
> > From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
> > 
> > John says:
> > 
> > This patch set allows offloading of TC flower match and set tunnel fields
> > to the NFP. The initial focus is on VXLAN traffic. Due to the current
> > state of the NFP firmware, only VXLAN traffic on well known port 4789 is
> > handled. The match and action fields must explicity set this value to be
> > supported. Tunnel end point information is also offloaded to the NFP for
> > both encapsulation and decapsulation. The NFP expects 3 separate data sets
> > to be supplied.
>  ...
> 
> Series applied, thanks.
> 
> I see there is some discussion about ipv6 flow dissector key handling
> and ND keepalives, but those should be addressable in follow-on changes.

Thanks Dave,

I'll make sure that discussion is brought to a satisfactory conclusion.