From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Kirsher Subject: Re: [net-next] i40e: enable fdb add code, remove unused code Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 21:53:44 -0800 Message-ID: <1416635624.2280.107.camel@jtkirshe-mobl> References: <1416529802-16055-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-e+RpG+mu5mQS66WR77kz" Cc: David Miller , Jesse Brandeburg , Linux Netdev List , nhorman@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com, jogreene@redhat.com To: Or Gerlitz Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:40581 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750703AbaKVFxq (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Nov 2014 00:53:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-e+RpG+mu5mQS66WR77kz Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 06:50 +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Jeff Kirsher > wrote: > > From: Jesse Brandeburg >=20 > > The fdb_add functionality is important to i40e because it is needed > > for a workaround to allow bridges to work correctly on the i40e > > hardware. >=20 > Can you please shed more light on the precise problem and solution? I > wonder if one or two of them are generic... so might can/need land > somewhere upper... This is not a generic problem, it is an errata related to source pruning that can be worked around by adding VSI MAC addresses to the HW filters. Information about it can be found in the driver readme. --=-e+RpG+mu5mQS66WR77kz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABCgAGBQJUcCToAAoJEOVv75VaS+3ONpEP/RGLvFls9aHl2xE/mN7ejY3L ZUXoMfE82RrjK0CGkze8xXhpZsvzh+9MdMsWvzlbvDHmxa7MohN2jiNB93enWuuk Bs5TqYUOE4+5Yg8nkE1VUkwhYCvCQbr4C8ZU7cNZ4HVfEMtdyjPKDeuXYzzQ6zFI /OFtwumCijeAkBuMmf8lunPC8kQb6AGGxItKKXSDskKrbwRsEqbM+9co/YxKoK96 BmrsFzRlT3Nd89C8Pe90czRkYJql/vtp1poi80B21CpjDWdZwqWonGeCMEwx+Wzw pgLCkeqAUlLnY2VytHUX4ngp8kyYuGC7L/lWIZbeQPoE0Zj8dYeYd9VDQ4XBvyy5 OwL5E2aeiccrvmhBI+m4Cxg3cHkU19uA+zx1a7OHpjVhMO6bOOyOEWTTqY7SwHpl V6SsDag5oSexKRt39L4ERZkulm0VSdYPDiQAvbbHa1Z0GzYuG8ABSp/W2uU1yNHJ XKafiwb/OR65TiiQxKjZLO1JSFSrU6BBjoHTFI9E/GGSRItbnMCNkXNOT9I3DyVq Jp7C2vealLMeRxyFJHKPq2qO3p1wS0mk1dHc1fGyNHHDpX0+J7vYkuL24Pzzk4f5 Xv3x4HLt+NcTtGBubylF97dYi86AYg7DzWVi+Qye97lIhR407M5Ti83s58sH+/zk D3nOE9b71jD4mzpgb5lc =7Qa4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-e+RpG+mu5mQS66WR77kz--