From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nhorman@tuxdriver.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: Add layer 2 hardware acceleration operations for macvlan devices
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:34:33 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131007.173433.163556658910279518.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131007212000.GA1596@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 17:20:00 -0400
> Thats me experimenting. I was thinking that origionally this functionality
> might be grouped separately, so that we could handle it independently of the
> standard network device operations (you might have noticed in v1 of my patch I
> had a size_t variable in there, so I thought the separation might be
> organizationally nice). It was also something I was tinkering with for
> potential future work to support other data plane accelerators (like the FM6000
> switch chip from intel) in a manner that didn't pollute the more typical host network
> devices. Like I said though, just experimenting at the moment....
Can these dataplane devices still act like a normal networking port and
send and receive packets at the host level?
If yes, that would be an extremely strong argument for netdev_ops.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-07 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-11 18:45 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Series short description John Fastabend
2013-09-11 18:46 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] net: rtnetlink: make priv_size a function for devs with dynamic size John Fastabend
2013-09-11 18:46 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] net: Add lower dev list helpers John Fastabend
2013-09-14 12:27 ` Veaceslav Falico
2013-09-14 20:43 ` John Fastabend
2013-09-14 21:14 ` Veaceslav Falico
2013-09-11 18:47 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] net: VSI: Add virtual station interface support John Fastabend
2013-09-20 23:12 ` Neil Horman
2013-09-21 17:30 ` John Fastabend
2013-09-22 16:44 ` Neil Horman
2013-09-11 18:47 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] ixgbe: Adding VSI support to ixgbe John Fastabend
2013-09-25 20:16 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: alternate proposal for using macvlans with forwarding acceleration Neil Horman
2013-09-25 20:16 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] net: Add layer 2 hardware acceleration operations for macvlan devices Neil Horman
2013-10-02 7:08 ` John Fastabend
2013-10-02 12:53 ` Neil Horman
2013-09-25 20:16 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: enable l2 forwarding acceleration for macvlans Neil Horman
2013-10-02 6:31 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: alternate proposal for using macvlans with forwarding acceleration John Fastabend
2013-10-02 13:28 ` Neil Horman
2013-10-04 20:10 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2 v2] " Neil Horman
2013-10-04 20:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: Add layer 2 hardware acceleration operations for macvlan devices Neil Horman
2013-10-07 19:52 ` David Miller
2013-10-07 21:20 ` Neil Horman
2013-10-07 21:34 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-10-07 22:39 ` John Fastabend
2013-10-08 0:52 ` Neil Horman
2013-10-04 20:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: enable l2 forwarding acceleration for macvlans Neil Horman
2013-10-07 22:09 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2 v2] net: alternate proposal for using macvlans with forwarding acceleration John Fastabend
2013-10-08 1:08 ` Neil Horman
2013-10-11 18:43 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2 v3] " Neil Horman
2013-10-11 18:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: Add layer 2 hardware acceleration operations for macvlan devices Neil Horman
2013-10-13 20:46 ` John Fastabend
2013-10-14 10:48 ` Neil Horman
2013-10-11 18:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: enable l2 forwarding acceleration for macvlans Neil Horman
2013-10-13 20:48 ` John Fastabend
2013-10-14 10:50 ` Neil Horman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-11-04 17:15 [PATCH 0/2] l2 hardware accelerated macvlans John Fastabend
2013-11-04 17:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: Add layer 2 hardware acceleration operations for macvlan devices John Fastabend
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