netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] nfp: flower tc block support and nfp PCI updates

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Date:   Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:07:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] nfp: flower tc block support and nfp PCI
 updates

From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:17:00 -0700

> This series improves the nfp PCIe code by making use of the new
> pcie_print_link_status() helper and resetting NFP locks when
> driver loads.  This can help us avoid lock ups after host crashes
> and is rebooted with PCIe reset or when kdump kernel is loaded.
> 
> The flower changes come from John, he says:
> 
> This patchset fixes offload issues when multiple repr netdevs are bound to
> a tc block and filter rules added. Previously the rule would be passed to
> the reprs and would be rejected in all but the first as the cookie value
> will indicate a duplicate. The first patch extends the flow lookup
> function to consider both host context and ingress netdev along with the
> cookie value. This means that a rule with a given cookie can exist
> multiple times assuming the ingress netdev is different. The host context
> ensures that stats from fw are associated with the correct instance of the
> rule.
> 
> The second patch protects against rejecting add/del/stat messages when a
> rule has a repr as both an ingress port and an egress dev. In such cases a
> callback can be triggered twice (once for ingress and once for egress)
> and can lead to duplicate rule detection or incorrect double calls.

Series applied, thanks Jakub.