From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Samudrala, Sridhar Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 11:41:15 -0700 Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue v6 PATCH 2/7] i40e: Introduce Port Representor netdevs and switchdev mode. In-Reply-To: References: <1490833375-2788-1-git-send-email-sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> <1490833375-2788-3-git-send-email-sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> Message-ID: <58E2974B.30503@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org List-ID: On 3/30/2017 12:17 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Sridhar Samudrala > > wrote: > > Port Representator netdevs are created for each PF and VF if the > switch > mode is set to 'switchdev'. These netdevs can be used to control and > configure VFs and PFs when they are moved to a different namespace. > They enable exposing statistics, configure and monitor link state, > mtu, > filters,fdb/vlan entries etc. > > > > What netdev represents the uplink (wire port) in your impl? > We don't have a port netdev representing the uplink in this implementation as we cannot control the frames going out the uplink via sw rules with the current generation of hw/fw. -Sridhar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: