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From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Rony Efraim <ronye@mellanox.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Subject: setting flow spec rules under vswitch configuration
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 11:37:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5073F073.3060403@mellanox.com> (raw)

Hi Ben,

Looking on kernel ethtool flow steering APIs in the context of a device
which is used as the uplink of a virtual switch, the admin should be able
to provide flow specification and action (e.g drop) that relates to traffic
coming from a specific port of the switch e.g that relates to a certain 
VM,etc.

For that end, we need to be able to specify both the L3/L4 attributes of
the flow and an L2 spec, that is the L2 spec containing the destination MAC
can't be assumed as the one of that device.

Specifically, in struct ethtool_rx_ntuple_flow_spec, I think we should 
let the
to provide an ethhdr even when L3/L4 spec is given, make sense? if yes, how
would you like to see this change, add a union entry that contains both, 
or in
another way?

Or.

             reply	other threads:[~2012-10-09  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-09  9:37 Or Gerlitz [this message]
2012-10-09 16:48 ` setting flow spec rules under vswitch configuration Ben Hutchings
2012-10-10 14:16   ` Or Gerlitz
2012-10-10 14:28     ` Ben Hutchings
2012-10-10 14:31       ` Or Gerlitz
2012-10-10 17:27         ` Ben Hutchings

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