From: Saeed Mahameed <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:28:56 +0300
> This series from Amir and Or deals with two enhancements for the mlx5 TC
> offloads.
>
> The 1st two patches add bulk reading of flow counters. Few bulk counter
> queries are
> used instead of issuing thousands firmware commands per second to get
> statistics of all
> flows set to HW.
>
> The next patches add TC based SRIOV offloading to mlx5, as a follow up for
> the e-switch
> offloads mode and the VF representors. When the e-switch is set to the (new)
> "offloads"
> mode, we can now offload TC/flower drop and forward rules, the forward action
> we offload
> is TC mirred/redirect.
>
> The above is done by the VF representor netdevices exporting the setup_tc ndo
> where from
> there we're re-using and enhancing the existing mlx5 TC offloads sub-module
> which now
> works for both the NIC and the SRIOV cases.
>
> The series is applied on top d3fc0353f7c7 ('ipv4: af_inet: make it explicitly
> non-modular')
> and it has no merge issues with the on-going net submission ('mlx5 tx timeout
> watchdog fixes')
Series applied, thanks.
