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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Premkumar Jonnala <pjonnala@broadcom.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: Offloading bonds to hardware
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:08:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151112170801.GG20177@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77EF4405DD4BB54AACCE7DB593DF6A9A9FD653@SJEXCHMB14.corp.ad.broadcom.com>

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 04:02:18PM +0000, Premkumar Jonnala wrote:
> Packet forwarding to/from bond interfaces is done in software.
> 
> This patch enables certain platforms to bridge traffic to/from
> bond interfaces in hardware.  Notifications are sent out when 
> the "active" slave set for a bond interface is updated in 
> software.  Platforms use the notifications to program the 
> hardware accordingly.  The changes have been verified to work 
> with configured and 802.3ad bond interfaces.

Hi Premkumar

Nice to see this. Do you also have patches for a switch using these
notification? Are you targeting Starfighter 2?

Thanks
	Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-12 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-12 16:02 [PATCH] bonding: Offloading bonds to hardware Premkumar Jonnala
2015-11-12 17:08 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2015-11-14  9:40   ` Jiri Pirko
2015-11-13 18:38 ` Florian Fainelli
2015-11-13 19:10   ` David Miller
2015-11-16  6:12     ` Premkumar Jonnala
2015-11-16  6:51       ` David Miller
2015-11-16  6:49     ` Premkumar Jonnala
2015-11-16  6:54       ` David Miller
2015-11-16  6:10   ` Premkumar Jonnala
2015-11-13 21:11 ` Andrew Lunn
2015-11-16  6:15   ` Premkumar Jonnala
2015-11-14  9:39 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-11-15  5:51   ` John Fastabend
2015-11-15  9:01     ` Jiri Pirko
2015-11-16 16:24       ` John Fastabend
2015-11-16  6:48   ` Premkumar Jonnala
2015-11-16  7:46     ` Jiri Pirko

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