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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] net: 8021q: move vlan offload registrations
 into vlan_core
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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 23:22:48 +0100

> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
> 
> Currently, the vlan packet offloads are registered only upon 8021q module
> load. However, even without this module loaded, the offloads could be
> utilized, for example by openvswitch datapath. As reported by Michael,
> that causes 2x to 5x performance improvement, depending on a testcase.
> 
> So move the vlan offload registrations into vlan_core and make this
> available even without 8021q module loaded.
> 
> Reported-by: Michael Shteinbok <michaelsh86@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
> Tested-by: Michael Shteinbok <michaelsh86@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks Jiri.