netdev - Re: pull-request: mlx5-next 2023-01-24 V2

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Message-ID: <Y9+EUoIyLPgONDEC@unreal>
Date:   Sun, 5 Feb 2023 12:26:26 +0200
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pull-request: mlx5-next 2023-01-24 V2

On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 05:57:39PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2023 16:47:26 -0800 Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> > On 03 Feb 13:14, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > >I believe Paolo is planning to look next week. No idea why the patch
> > >got marked as Accepted 🤷️

<...>

> My memory is that Leon proposed IPsec offload, I said "you're doing
> this for RDMA", he said "no we will also need this for TC redirect",
> I said "if you implement TC redirect that's a legit use of netdev APIs".
> 
> And now RDMA integration is coming, and no TC in sight.
> 
> I think it's reasonable for me to feel mislead.

And I think that it is reasonable to assume that company doesn't need to
stop its execution just because Leon is going through very challenging
time.

Like, I said, first I need to fix HW limitation and it much harder than
it sounds.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/leon/linux-rdma.git/commit/?h=xfrm-latest&id=67bff1d4a6e30010b6fd88ddc3ed70e9da75c95a

Thanks