netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/8] net/mlx5: HWS, Create STEs directly from matcher

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Message-ID: <20250624185734.GG1562@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:57:34 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Mark Bloch <mbloch@...dia.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, saeedm@...dia.com,
	gal@...dia.com, leonro@...dia.com, tariqt@...dia.com,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	moshe@...dia.com, Vlad Dogaru <vdogaru@...dia.com>,
	Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/8] net/mlx5: HWS, Create STEs directly from
 matcher

On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 08:22:22PM +0300, Mark Bloch wrote:
> From: Vlad Dogaru <vdogaru@...dia.com>
> 
> Matchers were using the pool abstraction solely as a convenience
> to allocate two STE ranges. The pool's core functionality, that
> of allocating individual items from the range, was unused.
> Matchers rely either on the hardware to hash rules into a table,
> or on a user-provided index.
> 
> Remove the STE pool from the matcher and allocate the STE ranges
> manually instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Dogaru <vdogaru@...dia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Yevgeny Kliteynik <kliteyn@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@...dia.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>