Re: Flows! Offload them.

Scott Feldman
2015-03-02T22:13:36Z

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Shrijeet Mukherjee <shrijeet@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can you elaborate on "allow for async write of data to hardware
>> tables"? Is this the trampoline model where user's request goes to
>> the kernel, and then back to user-space, and finally to the hardware
>> via an user-space SDK? I think we should exclude that model from
>> discussions about resource management. With the recent L2/L3 offload
>> work, I'm advocating a synchronous call path from user to kernel to
>> hardware so we can return a actionable result code, and put the burden
>> of resource management in user-space, not in the kernel.
>>
> Scott you mean synchronous to the switchdev driver right ?

Correct.