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

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Thu Jul 23 20:17:58 UTC 2020


From: "Nguyen, Anthony L" <anthony.l.nguyen at intel.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 20:06:15 +0000

> On Wed, 2020-07-22 at 14:22 -0700, Tony Nguyen wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Would you mind if I pick these patches up into Jeff's tree? It will
> make it easier to test that way.

No objections on my end, and you can add my:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>


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