From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamal Hadi Salim Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 00/29] Add support for the Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch Host Interface Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 06:57:05 -0400 Message-ID: <541C0C01.6080708@mojatatu.com> References: <20140918223242.10373.27403.stgit@ahduyck-bv4.jf.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nhorman@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, john.fastabend@gmail.com, matthew.vick@intel.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, sassmann@redhat.com To: Alexander Duyck , davem@davemloft.net Return-path: Received: from mail-ie0-f169.google.com ([209.85.223.169]:64078 "EHLO mail-ie0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750924AbaISK5I (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2014 06:57:08 -0400 Received: by mail-ie0-f169.google.com with SMTP id rp18so1181104iec.28 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 03:57:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140918223242.10373.27403.stgit@ahduyck-bv4.jf.intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/18/14 18:35, Alexander Duyck wrote: > This patch series adds support for the FM10000 Ethernet switch host > interface. The Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch is a 48-port Ethernet switch > supporting both Ethernet ports and PCI Express host interfaces. The fm10k > driver provides support for the host interface portion of the switch, both > PF and VF. > > As the host interfaces are directly connected to the switch this results in > some significant differences versus a standard network driver. For example > there is no PHY or MII on the device. Since packets are delivered directly > from the switch to the host interface these are unnecessary. Otherwise most > of the functionality is very similar to our other network drivers such as > ixgbe or igb. For example we support all the standard network offloads, > jumbo frames, SR-IOV (64 VFS), PTP, and some VXLAN and NVGRE offloads. > First off Kudos to the intel folks. Hopefully this is one of many such drivers coming - and lets hope this is as landscape-changing as the e1000 was ;-> Broadcom smell that Tim Horton's coffee. You described this as a switch but then expose it as a glorified nic. Assuming more goodstuff(tm) coming? cheers, jamal