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(2001-1c00-020d-1300-1b1c-4449-176a-89ea.cable.dynamic.v6.ziggo.nl. [2001:1c00:20d:1300:1b1c:4449:176a:89ea]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a640c23a62f3a-ac23943945asm1081554266b.22.2025.03.12.09.21.30 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <58cbe875-80e7-4a44-950b-b836b97f3259@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:21:29 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 nf 00/15] bridge-fastpath and related improvements To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Kuniyuki Iwashima , AngeloGioacchino Del Regno , Matthias Brugger , Nikolay Aleksandrov , Roopa Prabhu , Ivan Vecera , Jiri Pirko , Jozsef Kadlecsik , Simon Horman , Paolo Abeni , Jakub Kicinski , Eric Dumazet , "David S. Miller" , Andrew Lunn , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, bridge@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook , "Gustavo A. R. Silva" , Alexander Lobakin , Ahmed Zaki , Vladimir Oltean , Frank Wunderlich , Daniel Golle References: <20250305102949.16370-1-ericwouds@gmail.com> <897ade0e-a4d0-47d0-8bf7-e5888ef45a61@gmail.com> From: Eric Woudstra Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20250312_092134_177291_70737240 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 11.91 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 3/12/25 12:44 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > Therefore, I suggest you start with a much smaller series with a > carefully selected subset including preparatory patches. I suggest you > start with the software enhancements only. Please, add datapath tests. Then I will split it in: 1. Separate preparatory patches and small patch-sets that apply to the forward-fastpath already. 2. One patch-set that brings the bridge-fastpath with datapath tests. > P.S: You work is important, very important, but maybe there is no need > to Cc so many mailing lists and people, maybe netdev@, > netfilter-devel@ and bridge@ is sufficient. Ok, but my main question then is which tree should I work in, and therefore which tag should I give my patches, [nf] or [net-next]. I think it will get more complicated if I split my patch-set and half of the patches go to [nf] and another half to [net-next]. What do you suggest?