On Wed, 2020-09-16 at 09:56 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 13:25:17 -0700 sa...@kernel.org wrote: > > From: Saeed Mahameed <sae...@nvidia.com> > > > > Hi Dave & Jakub, > > > > This series adds some misc updates to mlx5 driver. > > > > For more information please see tag log below. > > > > Please pull and let me know if there is any problem. > > I don't really know what the metadata stuff is for but nothing looks > alarming so:
In simple words: the NIC steering pipeline knows to look into the packet fields in addition to that it can also provide and match on "metadata" such as, origin function, dest function/port if already determined, and some other well known hw registers.. > > Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org> > > That said some of the patches look like they should rather go to net. > e.g. 4, 6, 11.. why not? nothing critical really.
