From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
simon.horman@netronome.com, sfeldma@gmail.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
gerlitz.or@gmail.com, andy@greyhouse.net, ast@plumgrid.com,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3 00/12] Flow API
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 13:48:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150124134846.GB27523@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54C39161.9030300@mojatatu.com>
On 01/24/15 at 07:34am, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> They are not the same. The API lowers the barrier immensely; refer to
> my response to John. And we are actually handing it to them.
>
> From an equivalance perspective:
> Youd have to convince Dave to allow all those TOE vendors to get in
> with their direct hardware APIs (if those guys are still around).
I'm not advocating TOE, not sure why that pops up. I made the point
that various ways already exist for an out of tree driver to expose
a Netlink or other interface which provides direct access to the
hardware and that we can't prevent that.
Anyways, looks like you agree to the general direction the thread has
taken with Jiri's input.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-24 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-20 20:26 [net-next PATCH v3 00/12] Flow API John Fastabend
2015-01-20 20:26 ` [net-next PATCH v3 01/12] net: flow_table: create interface for hw match/action tables John Fastabend
2015-01-22 4:37 ` Simon Horman
2015-01-20 20:27 ` [net-next PATCH v3 02/12] net: flow_table: add rule, delete rule John Fastabend
2015-01-20 20:27 ` [net-next PATCH v3 03/12] net: flow: implement flow cache for get routines John Fastabend
2015-01-20 20:27 ` [net-next PATCH v3 04/12] net: flow_table: create a set of common headers and actions John Fastabend
2015-01-20 20:59 ` John W. Linville
2015-01-20 22:10 ` John Fastabend
2015-01-20 20:28 ` [net-next PATCH v3 05/12] net: flow_table: add validation functions for rules John Fastabend
2015-01-20 20:28 ` [net-next PATCH v3 06/12] net: rocker: add pipeline model for rocker switch John Fastabend
2015-01-20 20:29 ` [net-next PATCH v3 07/12] net: rocker: add set rule ops John Fastabend
2015-01-20 20:29 ` [net-next PATCH v3 08/12] net: rocker: add group_id slices and drop explicit goto John Fastabend
2015-01-20 20:30 ` [net-next PATCH v3 09/12] net: rocker: add multicast path to bridging John Fastabend
2015-01-20 20:30 ` [net-next PATCH v3 10/12] net: rocker: add cookie to group acls and use flow_id to set cookie John Fastabend
2015-01-20 20:31 ` [net-next PATCH v3 11/12] net: rocker: have flow api calls set cookie value John Fastabend
2015-01-20 20:31 ` [net-next PATCH v3 12/12] net: rocker: implement delete flow routine John Fastabend
2015-01-22 12:52 ` [net-next PATCH v3 00/12] Flow API Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-01-22 13:37 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-22 14:00 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-01-22 15:00 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-01-22 15:13 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-22 15:28 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-01-22 15:37 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-22 15:44 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-01-23 10:10 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-23 10:24 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-01-23 11:08 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-23 11:39 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-01-23 12:28 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-23 13:43 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-01-23 14:07 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-23 15:25 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-01-23 15:43 ` John Fastabend
2015-01-23 15:56 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-01-23 15:49 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-23 16:00 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-01-23 15:34 ` John Fastabend
2015-01-23 15:53 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-01-23 16:00 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-23 16:08 ` John Fastabend
2015-01-23 16:16 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-01-24 13:04 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-01-23 17:46 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-23 19:59 ` John Fastabend
2015-01-23 23:16 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-24 13:22 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-01-24 13:34 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-24 13:01 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-01-26 8:26 ` Simon Horman
2015-01-26 12:26 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-01-27 4:28 ` David Ahern
2015-01-27 4:58 ` Andy Gospodarek
2015-01-27 15:54 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-01-24 12:36 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-01-22 15:48 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-01-22 17:58 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-22 16:49 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-01-22 17:10 ` John Fastabend
2015-01-22 17:44 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-24 12:34 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-01-24 13:48 ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2015-01-23 9:00 ` David Miller
2015-01-22 16:58 ` John Fastabend
2015-01-23 10:49 ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-23 16:42 ` John Fastabend
2015-01-24 12:29 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
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