From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Zhe Tao <zhe.tao@intel.com>, john.mcnamara@intel.com
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i40e: add VEB switching support for i40e
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 11:16:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1954959.nPV1f2ZDDs@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453358984-20550-1-git-send-email-zhe.tao@intel.com>
2016-01-21 14:49, Zhe Tao:
> VEB switching feature for i40e is used to enable the switching between the
> VSIs connect to the virtual bridge. The old implementation is setting the
> virtual bridge mode as VEPA which is port aggregation. Enable the switching
> ability by setting the loop back mode for the specific VSIs which connect to PF
> or VFs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhe Tao <zhe.tao@intel.com>
Is VEB something specific to i40e?
Please explain the acronyms VEB, VSI and VEPA in the commit log or in a
doc dedicated to i40e. Having some design explanations in a doc would help
to understand the changes and to contribute.
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-22 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-21 6:49 [PATCH] i40e: add VEB switching support for i40e Zhe Tao
2016-01-22 10:16 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-01-25 6:22 ` Xu, Qian Q
2016-02-19 5:17 ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-02-23 3:48 ` Zhe Tao
2016-02-23 8:10 ` [PATCH v2] " Zhe Tao
2016-02-25 0:42 ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-03-09 5:38 ` [PATCH v3] " Zhe Tao
2016-03-09 6:02 ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-03-11 21:50 ` Bruce Richardson
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