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Date:   Tue, 7 Mar 2023 17:19:35 +0800
From:   Gavin Li <gavinl@...dia.com>
To:     Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com, roopa@...dia.com,
        eng.alaamohamedsoliman.am@...il.com, bigeasy@...utronix.de,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        gavi@...dia.com, roid@...dia.com, maord@...dia.com,
        saeedm@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND net-next v4 0/4] net/mlx5e: Add GBP VxLAN HW
 offload support


On 3/6/2023 10:47 PM, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
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>
>
> From: Gavin Li <gavinl@...dia.com>
> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 05:02:58 +0200
>
>> Patch-1: Remove unused argument from functions.
>> Patch-2: Expose helper function vxlan_build_gbp_hdr.
>> Patch-3: Add helper function for encap_info_equal for tunnels with options.
>> Patch-4: Add HW offloading support for TC flows with VxLAN GBP encap/decap
>>          in mlx ethernet driver.
>>
>> Gavin Li (4):
>>    vxlan: Remove unused argument from vxlan_build_gbp_hdr( ) and
>>      vxlan_build_gpe_hdr( )
>> ---
>> changelog:
>> v2->v3
>> - Addressed comments from Paolo Abeni
>> - Add new patch
>> ---
>>    vxlan: Expose helper vxlan_build_gbp_hdr
>> ---
>> changelog:
>> v1->v2
>> - Addressed comments from Alexander Lobakin
>> - Use const to annotate read-only the pointer parameter
>> ---
>>    net/mlx5e: Add helper for encap_info_equal for tunnels with options
>> ---
>> changelog:
>> v3->v4
>> - Addressed comments from Alexander Lobakin
>> - Fix vertical alignment issue
>> v1->v2
>> - Addressed comments from Alexander Lobakin
>> - Replace confusing pointer arithmetic with function call
>> - Use boolean operator NOT to check if the function return value is not zero
>> ---
>>    net/mlx5e: TC, Add support for VxLAN GBP encap/decap flows offload
>> ---
>> changelog:
>> v3->v4
>> - Addressed comments from Simon Horman
>> - Using cast in place instead of changing API
> I don't remember me acking this. The last thing I said is that in order
> to avoid cast-aways you need to use _Generic(). 2 times. IIRC you said
> "Ack" and that was the last message in that thread.
> Now this. Without me in CCs, so I noticed it accidentally.
> ???

Not asked by you but you said you were OK if I used cast-aways. So I did the

change in V3 and reverted back to using cast-away in V4.

>> v2->v3
>> - Addressed comments from Alexander Lobakin
>> - Remove the WA by casting away
>> v1->v2
>> - Addressed comments from Alexander Lobakin
>> - Add a separate pair of braces around bitops
>> - Remove the WA by casting away
>> - Fit all log messages into one line
>> - Use NL_SET_ERR_MSG_FMT_MOD to print the invalid value on error
>> ---
>>
>>   .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/tc_tun.h   |  3 +
>>   .../mellanox/mlx5/core/en/tc_tun_encap.c      | 32 ++++++++
>>   .../mellanox/mlx5/core/en/tc_tun_geneve.c     | 24 +-----
>>   .../mellanox/mlx5/core/en/tc_tun_vxlan.c      | 76 ++++++++++++++++++-
>>   drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c                | 27 +------
>>   include/linux/mlx5/device.h                   |  6 ++
>>   include/linux/mlx5/mlx5_ifc.h                 | 13 +++-
>>   include/net/vxlan.h                           | 19 +++++
>>   8 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>>
> Thanks,
> Olek