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.
