From: Jamal Hadi <hadi@shell.cyberus.ca>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, bridge@math.leidenuniv.nl
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.69] Bridge timer performance enhancement
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 07:29:20 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030514072350.P23367@shell.cyberus.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030509132012.598602ec.shemminger@osdl.org>
Stephen,
Seems you are the new maintainer to the bridging code? I suppose Lennert
is still still listening in the background somewhere. One thing we should
do post 2.6 is move all the STP protocol specific out of the kernel.
i.e leave the datapath controllers (such as controlling STP states)
in the kernel but have a user sapce daemon. This way you can start adding
a lot more feature rich extensions in user space without waiting for
kernel releases or having kernel patches (Fast Forward etc).
A second item is to start looking at integrating STP with the VLAN code.
Too bad Lennert (and someone else - cant remember the name) VLAN code
never made it in. We can still fix this.
cheers,
jamal
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-14 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-09 20:20 [PATCH 2.5.69] Bridge timer performance enhancement Stephen Hemminger
2003-05-10 4:35 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-14 11:29 ` Jamal Hadi [this message]
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