Re: [net-next 00/10][pull request] 10GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2018-04-25

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:32:55 -0700

> This series represents yet another phase of the macvlan cleanup Alex has
> been working on.
> 
> The main goal of these changes is to make it so that we only support
> offloading what we can actually offload and we don't break any existing
> functionality. So for example we were claiming to advertise source mode
> macvlan and we were doing nothing of the sort, so support for that has been
> dropped.
> 
> The biggest change with this set is that broadcast/multicast replication is
> no longer being supported in software. Alex dropped it as it leads to
> scaling issues when a broadcast frame has to be replicated up to 64 times.
> 
> Beyond that this set goes through and optimized the time needed to bring up
> and tear down the macvlan interfaces on ixgbe and provides a clean way for
> us to disable the macvlan offload when needed.

Ok, the macvlan changes look good to me.

> The following are changes since commit c749fa181bd5848be78691d23168ec61ce691b95:
>   Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
> and are available in the git repository at:
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queue 10GbE

I'll pull this into net-next, thanks everyone.