[PATCH v2 00/14] MediaTek SoC flow offload improvements + wireless support

Felix Fietkau nbd at nbd.name
Thu Apr 7 10:00:36 PDT 2022


On 07.04.22 17:57, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 01:30:17PM +0000, patchwork-bot+netdevbpf at kernel.org wrote:
>> Hello:
>> 
>> This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master)
>> by David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>:
>> 
>> On Tue,  5 Apr 2022 21:57:41 +0200 you wrote:
>> > This series contains the following improvements to mediatek ethernet flow
>> > offload support:
>> > 
>> > - support dma-coherent on ethernet to improve performance
>> > - add ipv6 offload support
>> > - rework hardware flow table entry handling to improve dealing with hash
>> >   collisions and competing flows
>> > - support creating offload entries from user space
>> > - support creating offload entries with just source/destination mac address,
>> >   vlan and output device information
>> > - add driver changes for supporting the Wireless Ethernet Dispatch core,
>> >   which can be used to offload flows from ethernet to MT7915 PCIe WLAN
>> >   devices
> 
> Hi David
> 
> It seems very early to merge this. The discussion of if the files are
> even in the right places has not even finished. And Arnd seems to not
> want parts of this in his subsystem. And there are some major
> architecture issues which need discussing...
> 
> I think you should revert this.
How about I simply send follow-up patches that move the relevant pieces 
to net?

- Felix



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