netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: airoha: Initialize PPE UPDMEM source-mac table

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Message-ID: <20250530180501.GQ1484967@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 19:05:01 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Michal Kubiak <michal.kubiak@...el.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: airoha: Initialize PPE UPDMEM source-mac
 table

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 05:52:37PM +0200, Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> UPDMEM source-mac table is a key-value map used to store devices mac
> addresses according to the port identifier. UPDMEM source mac table is
> used during IPv6 traffic hw acceleration since PPE entries, for space
> constraints, do not contain the full source mac address but just the
> identifier in the UPDMEM source-mac table.

Hi Lorenzo,

I think it would be nice to also mention a bit more clearly what (broken)
behaviour this fixes. Likewise for patch 2/2.

> 
> Fixes: 00a7678310fe ("net: airoha: Introduce flowtable offload support")
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>

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