[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v1 0/7] udp_tunnel: convert Intel drivers with shared tables

Nguyen, Anthony L anthony.l.nguyen at intel.com
Wed Jul 22 21:22:45 UTC 2020


On Tue, 2020-07-21 at 18:27 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> This set converts Intel drivers which have the ability to spawn
> multiple netdevs, but have only one UDP tunnel port table.
> 
> Appropriate support is added to the core infra in patch 1,
> followed by netdevsim support and a selftest.
> 
> The table sharing works by core attaching the same table
> structure to all devices sharing the table. This means the
> reference count has to accommodate potentially large values.
> 
> Once core is ready i40e and ice are converted. These are
> complex drivers, and I don't have HW to test so please
> review..

I'm requesting our developers to take a look over and validation to
test the ice and i40e patches. I will report back when I get results.

Thanks,
Tony


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