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Date:   Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:55:35 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Cc:     oss-drivers@...ronome.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        jiri@...nulli.us, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jhs@...atatu.com,
        gerlitz.or@...il.com, ozsh@...lanox.com, vladbu@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: sched: indirect tc block cb
 registration

From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Date: Fri,  9 Nov 2018 21:21:25 -0800

> John says:
> 
> 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.

Really nice.  Series applied.

Can the Mellanox folks use this too so that we can remove egdev altogether?
mlx5 is the only remaining user.

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