From: Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 17:42:43 -0700
... > This work tries to improve the situation by pulling the UDP tunnel > port table maintenance out of the drivers. It turns out that almost > all drivers maintain a fixed size table of ports (in most cases one > per tunnel type), so we can take care of all the refcounting in the > core, and let the driver specify if they need to sleep in the > callbacks or not. The new common implementation will also support > replacing ports - when a port is removed from a full table it will > try to find a previously missing port to take its place. > > This patch only implements the core functionality along with a few > drivers I was hoping to test manually [1] along with a test based > on a netdevsim implementation. Following patches will convert all > the drivers. Once that's complete we can remove the ndos, and rely > directly on the new infrastrucutre. > > Then after RSS (RXFH) is converted to netlink we can add the ability > to configure the use of inner RSS headers for UDP tunnels. ... Series applied, thanks Jakub.
