On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:59 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com> > Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:07:43 -0800 > >> This series contains updates to ixgbe and ixgbevf only. > ... >> Emil updates ixgbevf with several features and improvements done in >> other drivers, starting with the handling of page addresses so that we >> always refer to them using a void pointer. Added a 'legacy-rx' flag to >> allow switching between the old and new receive code paths. Added >> support for using 3K buggers in order 1 page. Updated the driver to >> ensure that calls to ixgbevf_open() are rtnl lock protected and improved >> the error handling when setting up multiple queues. Added support for >> providing a buffer with head room and tail room to allow for shared >> info, NET_SKB_PAD, and NET_IP_ALIGN, so that we can start using >> build_skb to build frames instead of using memcpy() the headers. >> Updated the logic of handling rings closer to ixgbe. Consolidated the >> receive paths to reduce duplication when we expand them in the future. >> Added build_skb() support to ixgbevf. > > This seems to suggest that XDP support for ixgbevf is coming next? :-)
So we are currently reviewing it as RFC on the intel-wired-lan mailing list: https://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/intel-wired-lan/Week-of-Mon-20180226/011810.html I'll work with Tony to see if we can Cc netdev when he submits this next to intel-wired-lan. Thanks. - Alex
