From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dhananjay@netxen.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, narender.kumar@qlogic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH NEXT 4/4] netxen: bridged mode optimizations
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:37:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090826.153758.165069820.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1251177808-16450-4-git-send-email-dhananjay@netxen.com>
From: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:23:28 -0700
> From: Narender Kumar <narender.kumar@qlogic.com>
>
> When the interface is put in bridged mode, destination mac
> addresses are unknown to firmware. So packets take a slow
> path (lower priority) in firmware reducing performance.
>
> Firmware can cache limited number of remote unicast mac
> addresses for certain interval, if "dynamic mac learning"
> mode is enabled.
>
> Driver needs to enable this "mac learning" mode in firmware.
> Currently this is done through net device class sysfs entry,
> possibly this can also be done upon netlink notifications to
> from bridge.
>
> Signed-off-by: Narender Kumar <narender.kumar@qlogic.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-26 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-25 5:23 [PATCH NEXT 1/4] netxen: remove unused code Dhananjay Phadke
2009-08-25 5:23 ` [PATCH NEXT 2/4] netxen: implement generic pcie semaphore functions Dhananjay Phadke
2009-08-26 22:37 ` David Miller
2009-08-25 5:23 ` [PATCH NEXT 3/4] netxen: remove netxen_nic_niu.c Dhananjay Phadke
2009-08-26 22:37 ` David Miller
2009-08-25 5:23 ` [PATCH NEXT 4/4] netxen: bridged mode optimizations Dhananjay Phadke
2009-08-26 22:37 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-08-26 22:37 ` [PATCH NEXT 1/4] netxen: remove unused code David Miller
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