Re: [net-next PATCH v7 05/10] octeontx2-af: Add packet path between representor and VF

Simon Horman
2024-07-01T10:50:53Z

On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 07:05:12PM +0530, Geetha sowjanya wrote:
> Current HW, do not support in-built switch which will forward pkts
> between representee and representor. When representor is put under
> a bridge and pkts needs to be sent to representee, then pkts from
> representor are sent on a HW internal loopback channel, which again
> will be punted to ingress pkt parser. Now the rules that this patch
> installs are the MCAM filters/rules which will match against these
> pkts and forward them to representee.
> The rules that this patch installs are for basic
> representor <=> representee path similar to Tun/TAP between VM and
> Host.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geetha sowjanya <gakula@marvell.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>