From: Samudrala, Sridhar <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue v6 PATCH 2/7] i40e: Introduce Port Representor netdevs and switchdev mode.
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 11:41:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58E2974B.30503@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3xEMgVeri17KceKhnFUCCFj00yWXKtjwP4r36Pb-CSZiOTng@mail.gmail.com>
On 3/30/2017 12:17 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Sridhar Samudrala
> <sridhar.samudrala at intel.com <mailto:sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>> 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
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-30 0:22 [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue v6 PATCH 0/7] i40e: Add port representor and initial switchdev support Sridhar Samudrala
2017-03-30 0:22 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue v6 PATCH 1/7] i40e: Introduce devlink interface Sridhar Samudrala
2017-03-31 19:35 ` Bowers, AndrewX
2017-03-30 0:22 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue v6 PATCH 2/7] i40e: Introduce Port Representor netdevs and switchdev mode Sridhar Samudrala
2017-03-30 7:17 ` Or Gerlitz
2017-04-03 18:41 ` Samudrala, Sridhar [this message]
2017-04-04 11:58 ` Or Gerlitz
2017-04-04 15:29 ` Alexander Duyck
2017-04-05 13:41 ` Or Gerlitz
2017-03-30 9:17 ` Or Gerlitz
2017-03-31 19:35 ` Bowers, AndrewX
2017-03-30 0:22 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue v6 PATCH 3/7] i40e: Sync link state between PF/VFs and Port representor netdevs Sridhar Samudrala
2017-03-31 19:37 ` Bowers, AndrewX
2017-03-30 0:22 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue v6 PATCH 4/7] net: store port/representator id in metadata_dst Sridhar Samudrala
2017-03-31 19:42 ` Bowers, AndrewX
2017-03-30 0:22 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue v6 PATCH 5/7] i40e: Add TX and RX support over port netdev's in switchdev mode Sridhar Samudrala
2017-03-30 9:26 ` Or Gerlitz
2017-04-03 18:52 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2017-04-14 16:47 ` Alexander Duyck
2017-04-14 18:26 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2017-03-30 0:22 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue v6 PATCH 6/7] i40e: Add support for exposing switch port statistics via port netdevs Sridhar Samudrala
2017-03-31 19:39 ` Bowers, AndrewX
2017-03-30 0:22 ` [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue v6 PATCH 7/7] i40e: Add support to get switch id and port number for " Sridhar Samudrala
2017-03-30 21:45 ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-03-30 22:31 ` Alexander Duyck
2017-03-31 1:16 ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-03-31 21:09 ` Bowers, AndrewX
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