From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamal Hadi Salim Subject: Re: SRIOV as bridge Re: [PATCH net-next RESEND] net: Do not call ndo_dflt_fdb_dump if ndo_fdb_dump is defined. Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 15:06:49 -0500 Message-ID: <54972859.7050108@mojatatu.com> References: <54894850.5000603@cumulusnetworks.com> <7968540cd0768a770b0c8b29ce41a162.squirrel@poczta.wsisiz.edu.pl> <5489D53E.5010603@cumulusnetworks.com> <8d4ec5c1ae73c77866a0a154fb528f23.squirrel@poczta.wsisiz.edu.pl> <548AD781.5020004@mojatatu.com> <4c22a6c452a73b3b77a9a9c8e7f76bcc.squirrel@poczta.wsisiz.edu.pl> <548AFD41.3010801@mojatatu.com> <548B4AA4.1020804@gmail.com> <548EF05E.6050401@mojatatu.com> <548F80B2.80408@gmail.com> <54902E5E.2070405@mojatatu.com> <54905F67.2090509@gmail.com> <5496D8E2.1090700@mojatatu.com> <54971A93.6050700@cumulusnetworks.com> <54971D2F.1090802@mojatatu.com> <54972140.30704@cumulusnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: John Fastabend , Hubert Sokolowski , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Vlad Yasevich , Shrijeet Mukherjee To: Roopa Prabhu Return-path: Received: from mail-ig0-f169.google.com ([209.85.213.169]:38213 "EHLO mail-ig0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752030AbaLUUGw (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2014 15:06:52 -0500 Received: by mail-ig0-f169.google.com with SMTP id hl2so4435743igb.0 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:06:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <54972140.30704@cumulusnetworks.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/21/14 14:36, Roopa Prabhu wrote: > On 12/21/14, 11:19 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: >> On 12/21/14 14:08, Roopa Prabhu wrote: > 'self' would just mean the driver owns the PF embedded bridge and the > kernel bridge driver has no role in this. 'self' will just tell the VF > driver to deal with the fdb mac entry. And the VF driver can push the > fdb to the PF (John can confirm if the intel sriov devices really do it > this way or some other way). > If the VFs are exposed as netdevs and the master (or Parent which i think the "P" stands for) they point to is the PF - then is the PF a bridge abstraction? And if the path is via is the PF - i think that seems like "master" not self, no? cheers, jamal