From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com> 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.
