netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: sched: indirect tc block cb registration

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Date:   Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:30:06 +0200
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     oss-drivers@...ronome.com,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Oz Shlomo <ozsh@...lanox.com>,
        Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: sched: indirect tc block cb registration

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 6:13 AM Jakub Kicinski
<jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:55:35 -0800 (PST), David Miller wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I believe Or and Oz are working on mlx5 counterpart, hopefully to land
> in this cycle? :)

yeah, Oz is working on that, plumbing the code [..] as we speak, submission
is planned for this cycle.

Or.