linux/include
David S. Miller cedf90c0cc mlx5-updates-2017-04-30
Or says:
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 mlx5 neigh update
 
 This series (whose code name is 'neigh update') from Hadar, enhances the
 mlx5 TC IP tunnel offloads to deal with changes to tunnel destination
 neighbours used in offloaded flows which involved encapsulation.
 
 In order to keep track on the validity state of such neighbours, we register
 a netevent notifier callback and act on NEIGH_UPDATE events: if a neighbour
 becomes valid, offload the related flows to HW (the other way around when
 neigh becomes invalid) and similarly when a neigh mac addresses changes.
 
 Since this traffic is offloaded from the host OS, the neighbour for the IP
 tunnel destination can mistakenly become STALE and deleted by the kernel
 since its 'used' value wasn't changed. To address that, we proactively
 update the neighbour 'used' value every DELAY_PROBE_TIME seconds, using
 time stamps generated by the existing driver code for HW flow counters.
 We use the DELAY_PROBE_TIME_UPDATE event to adjust the frequency of the updates.
 
 Prior to the core of the series, there's a patch from Saeed that introduces an
 extendable vport representor implementation scheme. It provides a separation
 between the eswitch to the netdev related aspects of the representors.
 
 We would like to thank Ido Schimmel and Ilya Lesokhin for their coaching && advice
 through the long design and review cycles while we struggled to understand and
 (hopefully correctly) implement the locking around the different driver flows(..) .
 
 - Or.
 =================
 
 Misc Updates:
 
 From Tariq:
 Some small performance and trivial code optimization for mlx5 netdev driver
 - Optimize poll ICOSQ completion queue
 - Use prefetchw when a write is to follow
 - Use u8 as ownership type in mlx5e_get_cqe()
 
 From Eran:
 - Disable LRO by default on specific setups
 
 From Eli:
 - Small cleanup for E-Switch to avoid redundant allocation
 
 Thanks,
 Saeed.
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Merge tag 'mlx5-updates-2017-04-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux

mlx5-updates-2017-04-30

Or says:
================
mlx5 neigh update

This series (whose code name is 'neigh update') from Hadar, enhances the
mlx5 TC IP tunnel offloads to deal with changes to tunnel destination
neighbours used in offloaded flows which involved encapsulation.

In order to keep track on the validity state of such neighbours, we register
a netevent notifier callback and act on NEIGH_UPDATE events: if a neighbour
becomes valid, offload the related flows to HW (the other way around when
neigh becomes invalid) and similarly when a neigh mac addresses changes.

Since this traffic is offloaded from the host OS, the neighbour for the IP
tunnel destination can mistakenly become STALE and deleted by the kernel
since its 'used' value wasn't changed. To address that, we proactively
update the neighbour 'used' value every DELAY_PROBE_TIME seconds, using
time stamps generated by the existing driver code for HW flow counters.
We use the DELAY_PROBE_TIME_UPDATE event to adjust the frequency of the updates.

Prior to the core of the series, there's a patch from Saeed that introduces an
extendable vport representor implementation scheme. It provides a separation
between the eswitch to the netdev related aspects of the representors.

We would like to thank Ido Schimmel and Ilya Lesokhin for their coaching && advice
through the long design and review cycles while we struggled to understand and
(hopefully correctly) implement the locking around the different driver flows(..) .

- Or.
=================

Misc Updates:

From Tariq:
Some small performance and trivial code optimization for mlx5 netdev driver
- Optimize poll ICOSQ completion queue
- Use prefetchw when a write is to follow
- Use u8 as ownership type in mlx5e_get_cqe()

From Eran:
- Disable LRO by default on specific setups

From Eli:
- Small cleanup for E-Switch to avoid redundant allocation

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-05-01 11:47:10 -04:00
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acpi
asm-generic vmlinux.lds: add missing VMLINUX_SYMBOL macros 2017-04-08 00:47:48 -07:00
clocksource
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-04-18 09:03:50 -07:00
drm drm/ttm, drm/vmwgfx: Relax permission checking when opening surfaces 2017-03-30 11:43:39 +02:00
dt-bindings scripts/spelling.txt: add "overide" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-03-09 17:01:09 -08:00
keys KEYS: Differentiate uses of rcu_dereference_key() and user_key_payload() 2017-03-02 10:09:00 +11:00
kvm KVM: arm64: Ensure LRs are clear when they should be 2017-04-04 14:33:58 +02:00
linux mlx5-updates-2017-04-30 2017-05-01 11:47:10 -04:00
math-emu
media media fixes for v4.11-rc2 2017-03-09 15:50:56 -08:00
memory
misc
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next 2017-05-01 10:47:53 -04:00
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ras
rdma IB/core: Restore I/O MMU, s390 and powerpc support 2017-03-24 21:51:16 -04:00
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scsi scsi: mpt3sas: Avoid sleeping in interrupt context 2017-03-01 21:52:13 -05:00
soc
sound sched/headers: Prepare to remove spurious <linux/sched.h> inclusion dependencies 2017-03-02 08:42:41 +01:00
target target: Fix ALUA transition state race between multiple initiators 2017-03-30 23:12:40 -07:00
trace bpf: map_get_next_key to return first key on NULL 2017-04-25 11:57:45 -04:00
uapi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next 2017-05-01 10:47:53 -04:00
video drm/exynos/decon5433: signal frame done interrupt at front porch 2017-03-21 13:17:22 +09:00
xen Merge branch 'stable/for-linus-4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb 2017-03-07 10:23:17 -08:00
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