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

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Thu Sep 3 23:22:20 UTC 2020


On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 20:06:15 +0000 Nguyen, Anthony L wrote:
> 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.

It's been a month. Any ETA on these?


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