From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next 1/2] vxlan: Notify drivers for listening UDP port changes
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:47:35 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kvk9um$j48$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1377665218-6760-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 at 04:46 GMT, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> wrote:
> From: Joseph Gasparakis <joseph.gasparakis@intel.com>
>
> This patch adds two more ndo ops: ndo_add_rx_vxlan_port() and
> ndo_del_rx_vxlan_port().
>
> Drivers can get notifications through the above functions about changes
> of the UDP listening port of VXLAN. Also, when physical ports come up,
> now they can call vxlan_get_rx_port() in order to obtain the port number(s)
> of the existing VXLAN interface in case they already up before them.
>
> This information about the listening UDP port would be used for VXLAN
> related offloads.
>
Since this is a notification, how about adding a new NETDEV_* event
rather than adding two new ndo_* ops?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-28 7:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-28 4:46 [net-next 1/2] vxlan: Notify drivers for listening UDP port changes Jeff Kirsher
2013-08-28 4:46 ` [net-next 2/2] ixgbe: Get and display the notifications from changes of the Rx vxlan UDP port Jeff Kirsher
2013-08-28 4:53 ` Jeff Kirsher
2013-08-28 7:47 ` Cong Wang [this message]
2013-08-28 11:43 ` [net-next 1/2] vxlan: Notify drivers for listening UDP port changes Ben Hutchings
2013-08-28 19:34 ` John Fastabend
2013-08-28 20:41 ` Joseph Gasparakis
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