From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Ali Ayoub <ali@mellanox.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
ogerlitz@mellanox.com, roland@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
sean.hefty@intel.com, erezsh@mellanox.co.il, dledford@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 09/12] net/eipoib: Add main driver functionality
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:44:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obmnfs4p.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50205DE0.7080706@mellanox.com> (Ali Ayoub's message of "Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:14:24 -0700")
Ali Ayoub <ali@mellanox.com> writes:
> Among other things, the main benefit we're targeting is to allow IPoE
> traffic within the VM to go through the (Ethernet) vBridge down to the
> eIPoIB PIF, and eventually to IPoIB and to the IB network.
That works today without code changes. It is called routing.
> In Para virtualized environment, the VM emulator sends/receives packets
> with Ethernet header, and the vBridge also performs L2 switching based
> on the Ethernet header, in addition to other tools that expect an
> Ethernet link layer. We'd like to support them on top of IPoIB.
See routing. The code is already done.
> I don't see in other alternatives a solution for the problem we're
> trying to solve. If there are changes/suggestions to improve eIPoIB
> netdev driver to avoid "messing with the link layer" and make it
> acceptable, we can discuss and apply them.
Nothing needs to be applied the code is done. Routing from
IPoE to IPoIB works.
There is nothing in what anyone has posted as requirements that needs
work to implement.
I totally fail to see how getting packets of of the VM as ethernet
frames, and then IP layer routing those packets over IP is not an
option. What requirement am I missing.
All VMs should suport that mode of operation, and certainly the kernel
does.
Implementations involving bridges like macvlan and macvtap are
performance optimizations, and the optimizations don't even apply in
areas like 802.11, where only one mac address is supported per adapter.
Bridging can ocassionally also be an administrative simplification as
well, but you should be able to achieve the a similar simplification
with a dhcprelay and proxy arp.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-07 0:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-01 17:09 [PATCH V2 00/12] Add Ethernet IPoIB driver Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 01/12] IB/ipoib: Add rtnl_link_ops support Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 02/12] IB/ipoib: Add support for clones / multiple childs on the same partition Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 03/12] include/linux: Add private flags for IPoIB interfaces Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 04/12] IB/ipoib: Add support for acting as VIF Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 05/12] net: Add ndo_set_vif_param operation to serve eIPoIB VIFs Or Gerlitz
2012-08-02 0:17 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-02 8:25 ` Erez Shitrit
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 06/12] net/core: Add rtnetlink support to vif parameters Or Gerlitz
2012-08-02 0:20 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-02 15:29 ` Erez Shitrit
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 07/12] net/eipoib: Add private header file Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 08/12] net/eipoib: Add ethtool file support Or Gerlitz
2012-08-02 0:22 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-02 8:35 ` Erez Shitrit
2012-08-02 15:42 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 09/12] net/eipoib: Add main driver functionality Or Gerlitz
2012-08-02 17:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-03 20:31 ` Ali Ayoub
2012-08-03 21:33 ` David Miller
2012-08-03 22:39 ` Ali Ayoub
2012-08-03 23:36 ` David Miller
2012-08-04 21:23 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-04 21:44 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-04 23:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-07 0:14 ` Ali Ayoub
2012-08-07 0:44 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2012-08-07 1:21 ` Re[2]: " Naoto MATSUMOTO
2012-08-15 9:10 ` Re[3]: " Naoto MATSUMOTO
2012-08-07 3:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-08 6:04 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-08 8:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-09 4:06 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 14:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-07 3:37 ` Joseph Glanville
2012-08-08 7:32 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-08 9:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-09 4:34 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 10:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-04 0:02 ` Ali Ayoub
2012-08-04 0:05 ` David Miller
2012-08-04 1:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-04 21:33 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-05 18:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-08 5:23 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 10:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-12 13:09 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 13:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-12 13:15 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 13:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-12 14:13 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 20:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-14 8:44 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-20 18:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-23 6:45 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-14 7:41 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 10:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-12 13:19 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 15:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-13 8:33 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-13 16:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-03 20:53 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-09-03 21:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 18:50 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-09-04 19:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-04 19:47 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-09-04 21:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 18:57 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 10/12] net/eipoib: Add sysfs support Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 11/12] net/eipoib: Add Makefile, Kconfig and MAINTAINERS entries Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 12/12] IB/ipoib: Add support for transmission of skbs w.o dst/neighbour Or Gerlitz
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