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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com
Cc: bhutchings@solarflare.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, deri@ntop.org,
	joseph.gasparakis@intel.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/5] ethtool: Introduce n-tuple filter programming support
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:54:57 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100120.185457.32730304.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F86E8680A7D9D74A99DC6345E35A692950109528@orsmsx503.amr.corp.intel.com>

From: "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:13:54 -0800

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:bhutchings@solarflare.com]
>>Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 11:33 AM
>>To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T
>>Cc: davem@davemloft.net; netdev@vger.kernel.org; gospo@redhat.com;
>>Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P; Luca Deri; Gasparakis, Joseph
>>Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/5] ethtool: Introduce n-tuple filter
>>programming support
>>
>>It it really necessary to add new driver operations?  It seems to me
>>that it would be preferable to extend {get,set}_rx_nfc() and have the
>>ethtool common code convert between the ethtool_rxnfc and
>>ethtool_rx_ntuple structures.  Does that seem possible?
>>
>
> It is possible, but I'm not sure if it's the right way to go.  The
> nfc routines are just flipping the various engines on in niu, where
> the ntuple routines are for passing full amounts of data through for
> different filters.  Also, I think keeping them separate makes niu
> programming cleaner, which can support both the nfc and ntuple
> modes.

Agreed.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-21  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-07  4:48 [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/5] ixgbe: Allocate driver resources per NUMA node Jeff Kirsher
2010-01-07  4:48 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/5] ixgbe: Make descriptor ring allocations NUMA-aware Jeff Kirsher
2010-01-08  8:21   ` David Miller
2010-01-08  8:25     ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2010-01-08  8:31       ` David Miller
2010-01-08  8:36         ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2010-01-07  4:49 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/5] ethtool: Introduce n-tuple filter programming support Jeff Kirsher
2010-01-08  8:23   ` David Miller
2010-01-08  8:34     ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2010-01-08  8:38       ` David Miller
2010-01-08  8:42         ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2010-01-11 19:32   ` Ben Hutchings
2010-01-12 19:13     ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2010-01-21  2:54       ` David Miller [this message]
2010-01-07  4:49 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 4/5] ixgbe: Add Flow Director configuration support as a mod parameter Jeff Kirsher
2010-01-08  8:24   ` David Miller
2010-01-08  8:28     ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2010-01-08  8:32       ` David Miller
2010-01-08  8:36         ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2010-01-07  4:49 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 5/5] ixgbe: Add support for the new ethtool n-tuple programming interface Jeff Kirsher
2010-01-08  8:26   ` David Miller
2010-01-14 11:02 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/5] ixgbe: Allocate driver resources per NUMA node Andi Kleen
2010-01-19 16:10   ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2010-01-19 19:34     ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-19 19:34       ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P

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