From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Kicinski Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: sched: indirect tc block cb registration Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 20:13:32 -0800 Message-ID: <20181111201332.6821bfe1@cakuba.netronome.com> References: <20181110052131.3306-1-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> <20181111.095535.170428974627804709.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: oss-drivers@netronome.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jiri@resnulli.us, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, jhs@mojatatu.com, ozsh@mellanox.com, vladbu@mellanox.com To: David Miller , gerlitz.or@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from mail-pl1-f193.google.com ([209.85.214.193]:39943 "EHLO mail-pl1-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730146AbeKLOE4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2018 09:04:56 -0500 Received: by mail-pl1-f193.google.com with SMTP id q19-v6so3648403pll.7 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2018 20:13:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20181111.095535.170428974627804709.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:55:35 -0800 (PST), David Miller wrote: > From: Jakub Kicinski > 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? :)