From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v2 00/29] Add support for the Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch Host Interface Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:17:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20140922.151750.1374374207690364454.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20140920234342.2977.21667.stgit@ahduyck-bv4.jf.intel.com> <1411410964.2513.1.camel@jtkirshe-mobl.jf.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, nhorman@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, john.fastabend@gmail.com, matthew.vick@intel.com, sassmann@redhat.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:53106 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754196AbaIVTRx (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:17:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1411410964.2513.1.camel@jtkirshe-mobl.jf.intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:36:04 -0700 > On Sat, 2014-09-20 at 19:45 -0400, Alexander Duyck wrote: >> This patch series adds support for the FM10000 Ethernet switch host >> interface. The Intel FM10000 Ethernet Switch is a 48-port Ethernet switch >> supporting both Ethernet ports and PCI Express host interfaces. The fm10k >> driver provides support for the host interface portion of the switch, both >> PF and VF. >> >> As the host interfaces are directly connected to the switch this results in >> some significant differences versus a standard network driver. For example >> there is no PHY or MII on the device. Since packets are delivered directly >> from the switch to the host interface these are unnecessary. Otherwise most >> of the functionality is very similar to our other network drivers such as >> ixgbe or igb. For example we support all the standard network offloads, >> jumbo frames, SR-IOV (64 VFS), PTP, and some VXLAN and NVGRE offloads. >> >> --- > > Dave, if it makes it easier on you, I can add Alex's series of patches > to my net-next tree for you to pull. Just give me an hour or so so that > I can update my net-next and push his patches up to my tree. Yeah, could you please do that? Thanks.