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R. Silva" , Eric Dumazet , linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, Ivan Vecera , Alexander Lobakin , Jozsef Kadlecsik , coreteam@netfilter.org, Roopa Prabhu , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Nikolay Aleksandrov , Jiri Pirko , bridge@lists.linux.dev, Kuniyuki Iwashima , linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, Daniel Golle , Matthias Brugger , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, AngeloGioacchino Del Regno , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Simon Horman , Vladimir Oltean , "David S. Miller" Sender: "Linux-mediatek" Errors-To: linux-mediatek-bounces+linux-mediatek=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 05:21:29PM +0100, Eric Woudstra wrote: > > > 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]. Use [nf-next]. > What do you suggest? Probably I can collect 4/15 and 5/15 from this series to be included in the next pull request, let me take a look. But it would be good to have tests for these two patches. I would suggest you continue by making a series to add bridge support for the flowtable, software only, including tests. Once this gets merged, then follow up with the hardware offload code. Thanks.