From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
bhutchings@solarflare.com, roprabhu@cisco.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net,
gregory.v.rose@intel.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, sri@us.ibm.com,
kernel@wantstofly.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v0 1/2] net: bridge: propagate FDB table into hardware
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:10:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4FF3E4.5010003@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120301141413.GB4430@redhat.com>
On 3/1/2012 6:14 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:25:56AM -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
>> 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/
>>
>>
>> .John
>
> One place where this might not work well would be
> macvtap which is not a network device so it doesn't have
> its own address, instead it inherits one from macvlan.
>
But is macvtap really doing any forwarding or implementing any
RX filters? Took a quick scan and it looks like the forwarding
logic is all in the macvlan code paths. In this case I suspect
if we enable macvlan then any device built on top of it would
work.
.John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-01 22:10 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
2012-03-01 14:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-03-01 22:10 ` John Fastabend [this message]
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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