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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: sched: indirect tc block cb
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Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:55:35 -0800 (PST)
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From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Date: Fri,  9 Nov 2018 21:21:25 -0800

> John says:
> 
> This patchset introduces an alternative to egdev offload by allowing a
> driver to register for block updates when an external device (e.g. tunnel
> netdev) is bound to a TC block. Drivers can track new netdevs or register
> to existing ones to receive information on such events. Based on this,
> they may register for block offload rules using already existing
> functions.
> 
> The patchset also implements this new indirect block registration in the
> NFP driver to allow the offloading of tunnel rules. The use of egdev
> offload (which is currently only used for tunnel offload) is subsequently
> removed.

Really nice.  Series applied.

Can the Mellanox folks use this too so that we can remove egdev altogether?
mlx5 is the only remaining user.