From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jesse@nicira.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Move vlan acceleration into networking core.
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:33:33 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101021.013333.189715307.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287618974-4714-1-git-send-email-jesse@nicira.com>
From: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:56:00 -0700
> Hardware vlan acceleration behaves fairly differently from other types of
> offloading, which limits its usefulness. This patch series aims to bring
> it more in line with other common forms of acceleration, such as checksum
> offloading and TSO. In doing this it eliminates common driver bugs, increases
> flexibility, and improves performance, while reducing the number of lines of
> code.
>
> The first eleven patches can be applied immediately, while the last three need
> to wait until all drivers that support vlan acceleration are updated. If
> people agree that this patch set makes sense I will go ahead and switch over
> the dozen or so drivers that would need to change.
First 11 patches applied, thanks!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-21 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-20 23:56 [PATCH v2 00/14] Move vlan acceleration into networking core Jesse Gross
2010-10-20 23:56 ` [PATCH v2 01/14] ebtables: Allow filtering of hardware accelerated vlan frames Jesse Gross
2010-10-20 23:56 ` [PATCH v2 02/14] vlan: Rename VLAN_GROUP_ARRAY_LEN to VLAN_N_VID Jesse Gross
2010-10-20 23:56 ` [PATCH v2 03/14] vlan: Don't check for vlan group before vlan_tx_tag_present Jesse Gross
2010-10-20 23:56 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] vlan: Enable software emulation for vlan accleration Jesse Gross
2010-10-21 3:32 ` John Fastabend
2010-10-21 15:30 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-10-21 21:44 ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-22 14:12 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: Fix some corner cases in dev_can_checksum() Ben Hutchings
2010-10-22 14:18 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-10-26 0:21 ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-26 13:29 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-10-26 18:11 ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-27 18:00 ` David Miller
2010-10-20 23:56 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] vlan: Avoid hash table lookup to find group Jesse Gross
2010-10-20 23:56 ` [PATCH v2 06/14] vlan: Centralize handling of hardware acceleration Jesse Gross
2010-10-20 23:56 ` [PATCH v2 07/14] ethtool: Add support for vlan accleration Jesse Gross
2010-10-21 3:27 ` John Fastabend
2010-10-21 19:43 ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-20 23:56 ` [PATCH v2 08/14] bridge: Add support for TX vlan offload Jesse Gross
2010-10-20 23:56 ` [PATCH v2 09/14] bnx2: Update bnx2 to use new vlan accleration Jesse Gross
2010-10-21 15:31 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-10-21 21:38 ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-20 23:56 ` [PATCH v2 10/14] ixgbe: Update ixgbe " Jesse Gross
2010-10-22 13:24 ` Michał Mirosław
2010-10-25 17:50 ` Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
2010-10-25 21:40 ` Michał Mirosław
2010-10-25 22:02 ` John Fastabend
2010-10-25 23:23 ` Michał Mirosław
2010-10-26 0:08 ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-20 23:56 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] bnx2x: Update bnx2x " Jesse Gross
2010-10-21 13:54 ` Vladislav Zolotarov
2010-10-21 14:02 ` Vladislav Zolotarov
2010-10-21 14:50 ` Vladislav Zolotarov
2010-10-21 21:36 ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-22 0:57 ` Dmitry Kravkov
2010-10-24 9:21 ` Vladislav Zolotarov
2010-10-24 10:11 ` Vladislav Zolotarov
2010-10-26 0:29 ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-26 9:14 ` Vladislav Zolotarov
2010-10-26 17:57 ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-21 21:34 ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-20 23:56 ` [PATCH v2 12/14] lro: Remove explicit vlan support Jesse Gross
2010-10-20 23:56 ` [PATCH v2 13/14] bonding: Update bonding for new vlan model Jesse Gross
2010-10-20 23:56 ` [PATCH v2 14/14] vlan: Remove accleration legacy functions Jesse Gross
2010-10-21 2:02 ` [PATCH v2 00/14] Move vlan acceleration into networking core David Dillow
2010-10-21 19:32 ` Jesse Gross
2010-10-21 8:33 ` David Miller [this message]
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