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From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, idosch@mellanox.com,
	eladr@mellanox.com, yotamg@mellanox.com, nogahf@mellanox.com,
	ogerlitz@mellanox.com, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com,
	nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com, linville@tuxdriver.com,
	andy@greyhouse.net, f.fainelli@gmail.com,
	dsa@cumulusnetworks.com, jhs@mojatatu.com,
	vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com, andrew@lunn.ch,
	ivecera@redhat.com, kaber@trash.net, john@phrozen.org
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v3 3/6] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Use FIB notifications instead of switchdev calls
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:11:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160926111103.GA11100@splinter> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1474887154-6286-4-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us>

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:52:31PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
> 
> Until now, in order to offload a FIB entry to HW we use switchdev op.
> However that has limits. Mainly in case we need to make the HW aware of
> all route prefixes configured in kernel. HW needs to know those in order
> to properly trap appropriate packets and pass the to kernel to do
> the forwarding. Abort mechanism is now handled within the mlxsw driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>

Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>

Thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-26 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-26 10:52 [patch net-next v3 0/6] fib offload: switch to notifier Jiri Pirko
2016-09-26 10:52 ` [patch net-next v3 1/6] fib: introduce FIB notification infrastructure Jiri Pirko
2016-09-26 10:52 ` [patch net-next v3 2/6] fib: introduce FIB info offload flag helpers Jiri Pirko
2016-09-26 10:52 ` [patch net-next v3 3/6] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Use FIB notifications instead of switchdev calls Jiri Pirko
2016-09-26 11:11   ` Ido Schimmel [this message]
2016-09-26 10:52 ` [patch net-next v3 4/6] rocker: use " Jiri Pirko
2016-09-26 10:52 ` [patch net-next v3 5/6] switchdev: remove FIB offload infrastructure Jiri Pirko
2016-09-26 10:52 ` [patch net-next v3 6/6] doc: update switchdev L3 section Jiri Pirko
2016-09-28  8:49 ` [patch net-next v3 0/6] fib offload: switch to notifier David Miller

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