From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next 00/10][pull request] 10GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2018-04-25 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:18:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20180425.151843.495629824032757479.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20180425153305.25878-1-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, nhorman@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com, jogreene@redhat.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:54284 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751093AbeDYTSr (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:18:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20180425153305.25878-1-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher 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.