From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: RFC: Network Plugin Architecture (NPA) for vmxnet3 Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 17:32:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100504.173236.104064409.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100504230225.GP8323@vmware.com> <20100504170531.1e7122da@nehalam> <20100505001857.GQ8323@vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: pv-drivers@vmware.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, shemminger@vyatta.com To: pthakkar@vmware.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100505001857.GQ8323@vmware.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Pankaj Thakkar Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:18:57 -0700 > The purpose of this email is to introduce the architecture and the > design principles. The overall project involves more than just > changes to vmxnet3 driver and hence we though an overview email > would be better. Once people agree to the design in general we > intend to provide the code changes to the vmxnet3 driver. Stephen's point is that code talks and bullshit walks. Talk about high level designs rarely gets any traction, and often goes nowhere. Give us an example implementation so there is something concrete for us to sink our teeth into.