On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:55:35 -0800 (PST), David Miller wrote: > From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> > 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? :)
