On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 6:13 AM Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> wrote: > 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? :)
yeah, Oz is working on that, plumbing the code [..] as we speak, submission is planned for this cycle. Or.
