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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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