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From Eli Britstein,
 Patches 1-10 adds remote mirroring support.
 Patches 1-4 refactor encap related code as pre-steps for using per
 destination encapsulation properties.
 Patches 5-7 use extended destination feature for single/multi
 destination scenarios that have a single encap destination.
 Patches 8-10 enable multiple encap destinations for a TC flow.
 
 From, Daniel Jurgens,
 Patch 11, Use CQE padding for Ethernet CQs, PPC showed up to a 24%
 improvement in small packet throughput
 
 From Eyal Davidovich,
 patches 12-14, FW monitor counter support
 FW monitor counters feature came to solve the delayed reporting of
 FW stats in the atomic get_stats64 ndo, since we can't access the
 FW at that stage, this feature will enable immediate FW stats updates
 in the driver via fw events on specific stats updates.
 
 Patch 12, cleanup to avoid querying a FW counter when it is not
 supported
 Patch 13, Monitor counters FW commands support
 Patch 14, Use monitor counters in ethernet netdevice to update FW
 stats reported in the atomic get_stats64 ndo.
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Merge tag 'mlx5e-updates-2018-12-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux

Saeed Mahameed says:

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mlx5e-updates-2018-12-11

From Eli Britstein,
Patches 1-10 adds remote mirroring support.
Patches 1-4 refactor encap related code as pre-steps for using per
destination encapsulation properties.
Patches 5-7 use extended destination feature for single/multi
destination scenarios that have a single encap destination.
Patches 8-10 enable multiple encap destinations for a TC flow.

From, Daniel Jurgens,
Patch 11, Use CQE padding for Ethernet CQs, PPC showed up to a 24%
improvement in small packet throughput

From Eyal Davidovich,
patches 12-14, FW monitor counter support
FW monitor counters feature came to solve the delayed reporting of
FW stats in the atomic get_stats64 ndo, since we can't access the
FW at that stage, this feature will enable immediate FW stats updates
in the driver via fw events on specific stats updates.

Patch 12, cleanup to avoid querying a FW counter when it is not
supported
Patch 13, Monitor counters FW commands support
Patch 14, Use monitor counters in ethernet netdevice to update FW
stats reported in the atomic get_stats64 ndo.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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