Re: [pull request][for-next 00/11] Mellanox, mlx5 E-Switch updates 2017-12-19

[Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:33:29PM -0800, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> Hi Dave and Doug,
> 
> ==============
> This series includes updates for mlx5 E-Switch infrastructures,
> to be merged into net-next and rdma-next trees.
> 
> Mark's patches provide E-Switch refactoring that generalize the mlx5
> E-Switch vf representors interfaces and data structures. The serious is
> mainly focused on moving ethernet (netdev) specific representors logic out
> of E-Switch (eswitch.c) into mlx5e representor module (en_rep.c), which
> provides better separation and allows future support for other types of vf
> representors (e.g. RDMA).
> 
> Gal's patches at the end of this serious, provide a simple syntax fix and
> two other patches that handles vport ingress/egress ACL steering name
> spaces to be aligned with the Firmware/Hardware specs.

Patch 10 actually looks quite worrysome if a card would support only
one ingress or egress, but if all of them support both, then it should
be fine yes. Is that possible, to support only one direction?

  Marcelo
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