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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v2 0/4] net: bridge / ip optimizations for virtual net backends
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:27:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5301E411.5060908@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392433180-16052-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>

On 15/02/14 02:59, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
> 
> This v2 series changes the approach from my original virtualization
> multicast patch series [0] by abandoning completely the multicast
> issues and instead generalizing an approach for virtualization
> backends. There are two things in common with virtualization
> backends:
> 
>   0) they should not become the root bridge
>   1) they don't need ipv4 / ipv6 interfaces

Why?  There's no real difference between a backend network device and a
physical device (from the point of view of the backend domain).  I do
not think these are intrinsic properties of backend devices.

I can see these being useful knobs for administrators (or management
toolstacks) to turn on, on a per-device basis.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-17 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-15  2:59 [RFC v2 0/4] net: bridge / ip optimizations for virtual net backends Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-15  2:59 ` [RFC v2 1/4] bridge: enable interfaces to opt out from becoming the root bridge Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-16 18:56   ` Ben Hutchings
2014-02-16 18:57   ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-02-18 21:02     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-19  9:52       ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2014-02-19 14:35         ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-02-19 17:02           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-19 17:08             ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-02-19 17:59               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-20 17:19                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-02-20 20:24                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-21 13:02                     ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-02-21 16:01                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-22  1:38                         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-20 13:19             ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-02-20 20:01               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-21 13:02                 ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-02-21 15:59                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-17 17:52   ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-02-19 16:45     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-20 14:47       ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-02-20 20:28         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-15  2:59 ` [RFC v2 2/4] net: enables interface option to skip IP Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-17 20:23   ` Dan Williams
2014-02-18 21:19     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-18 21:42       ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-02-19 17:13         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-19 16:45       ` Dan Williams
2014-02-19 17:20         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-19 19:13           ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-02-20 20:39             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-21 13:02               ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-02-22  1:40                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-20  0:56           ` Dan Williams
2014-02-20  0:58             ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-02-20  1:02               ` Dan Williams
2014-02-20 20:31             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-24 18:22               ` Dan Williams
2014-02-24 20:33                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-24 23:04                 ` David Miller
2014-02-25  0:02                   ` Ben Hutchings
2014-02-25  0:12                     ` David Miller
2014-02-25  2:01                       ` Ben Hutchings
2014-02-25  2:23                         ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-02-25 19:50                       ` Paul Marks
2014-02-25 21:07                   ` Dan Williams
2014-02-25 21:18                     ` David Miller
2014-02-26  1:29                       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-02-15  2:59 ` [RFC v2 3/4] xen-netback: use a random MAC address Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-17 10:29   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2014-02-18 11:22     ` Ian Campbell
2014-02-18 21:30       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-15  2:59 ` [RFC v2 4/4] xen-netback: skip IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-17 14:36   ` [Xen-devel] " Zoltan Kiss
2014-02-18 20:16     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-19  9:47       ` Ian Campbell
2014-02-17 10:27 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2014-02-18 19:43   ` [Xen-devel] [RFC v2 0/4] net: bridge / ip optimizations for virtual net backends Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-02-19  9:48     ` Ian Campbell
2014-02-19 17:10       ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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