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From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "Nelson, Shannon" <shannon.nelson@intel.com>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
	"e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
	<e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
	"gospo@redhat.com" <gospo@redhat.com>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"sassmann@redhat.com" <sassmann@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [net-next v4 7/8] i40e: sysfs and debugfs interfaces
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:38:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <522915E7.8010308@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130905113259.55ad2ad2@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>

On 9/5/2013 11:32 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

[...]

>
> IMHO  attributes are a nice way of handling the VSI attributes since they
> seem hardware specific.  Not sure how to do the right thing with switching.
> Should it look like Macvlan, bridge, VXLAN, or something else.

I think if you add a new rtnl link type call it "VSI" then it looks very
similar to a macvlan which has been offloaded. Additionally you get all
the fdb and ndo ops that already exist for free.

I proposed something similar here,

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/237617

although as Ben pointed out I screwed up the implementation. I'll work
on updating this to submit when net-next opens again.

.John

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-05 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-04 23:17 [net-next v4 0/8][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-04 23:17 ` [net-next v4 1/7] i40e: main driver core Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-05 16:26   ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-09-05 17:59     ` Nelson, Shannon
2013-09-04 23:17 ` [net-next v4 2/8] i40e: transmit, receive, and napi Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-04 23:17 ` [net-next v4 3/8] i40e: driver ethtool core Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-04 23:17 ` [net-next v4 4/8] i40e: driver core headers Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-04 23:17 ` [net-next v4 5/8] i40e: implement virtual device interface Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-04 23:17 ` [net-next v4 6/8] i40e: init code and hardware support Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-04 23:17 ` [net-next v4 7/8] i40e: sysfs and debugfs interfaces Jeff Kirsher
2013-09-05  0:37   ` [E1000-devel] " Stephen Hemminger
2013-09-05  1:25     ` Nelson, Shannon
2013-09-05  3:19       ` David Miller
2013-09-05  4:08         ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2013-09-05  4:37           ` David Miller
2013-09-06  3:09             ` Nelson, Shannon
2013-09-05  4:55       ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-09-05 11:10         ` Bjørn Mork
2013-09-05 15:21           ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-09-05 17:53     ` Nelson, Shannon
2013-09-05 18:32       ` [E1000-devel] " Stephen Hemminger
2013-09-05 23:38         ` John Fastabend [this message]
2013-09-04 23:17 ` [net-next v4 8/8] i40e: include i40e in kernel proper Jeff Kirsher

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