From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
To: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
bhutchings@solarflare.com, roprabhu@cisco.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, chrisw@redhat.com,
davem@davemloft.net, gregory.v.rose@intel.com,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, sri@us.ibm.com,
Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v0 1/2] net: bridge: propagate FDB table into hardware
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:24:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1330608262.6944.10.camel@mojatatu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F4E5FA4.4040506@intel.com>
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 09:25 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
> Well I think NETLINK_ROUTE is the most correct type to use in this
> case. Per netlink.h its for routing and device hooks.
>
> #define NETLINK_ROUTE 0 /* Routing/device hook */
>
> And NETLINK_ROUTE msg_types use the RTM_* prefix. The _*NEIGH postfix
> were merely a copy from the SW BRIDGE code paths. How about,
>
> PF_BRIDGE:RTM_FDB_NEWENTRY
> PF_BRIDGE:RTM_FDB_DELENTRY
> PF_BRIDGE:RTM_FDB_GETENTRY
OK, I guess ;->
> And a new group RTNLGRP_FDB.
Nod.
> Also using NETLINK_ROUTE gives the correct
> rtnl locking semantics for free.
makes sense.
> Agreed. I think adding some ndo_ops for bridging offloads here would
> work. For example the DSA infrastructure and/or macvlan devices might
> need this. Along the lines of extending this RFC,
>
> [RFC] hardware bridging support for DSA switches
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/16578/
Certainly - thats one approach that is reasonable.
Where is Lennert? ;-> I changed his email address to one that i am
familiar with.
cheers,
jamal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-01 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-09 3:22 [RFC PATCH v0 1/2] net: bridge: propagate FDB table into hardware John Fastabend
2012-02-09 3:22 ` [RFC PATCH v0 2/2] ixgbe: add NETIF_F_HW_FDB to supported flags John Fastabend
2012-02-09 4:36 ` [RFC PATCH v0 1/2] net: bridge: propagate FDB table into hardware Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-09 17:36 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-09 17:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-09 17:52 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-09 21:11 ` jamal
2012-02-10 2:14 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-10 4:14 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-10 15:18 ` jamal
2012-02-10 16:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-13 13:54 ` jamal
2012-02-13 15:13 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-14 13:18 ` jamal
2012-02-14 18:57 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-14 19:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-14 19:08 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-15 14:10 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-02-16 1:26 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-17 14:28 ` jamal
2012-02-17 17:10 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-18 12:41 ` jamal
2012-02-29 4:40 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-29 5:14 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-29 13:57 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-02-29 13:56 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-02-29 17:25 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-29 17:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-29 18:19 ` John Fastabend
2012-03-01 13:36 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-03-01 22:17 ` John Fastabend
2012-03-02 13:20 ` jamal
2012-03-05 17:00 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-03-01 13:24 ` Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
2012-03-01 14:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-03-01 22:10 ` John Fastabend
2012-03-05 16:53 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-03-06 3:45 ` John Fastabend
2012-03-06 14:15 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-03-06 13:42 ` jamal
2012-03-06 14:09 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-03-07 14:11 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-03-12 8:48 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-03-13 13:52 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-02-16 3:58 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-02-16 19:18 ` Shradha Shah
2012-02-17 14:37 ` jamal
2012-02-10 13:45 ` Roopa Prabhu
2012-02-09 18:14 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2012-02-09 20:30 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-10 0:39 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2012-02-10 0:51 ` John Fastabend
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