From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Pirko Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: Offloading bonds to hardware Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 10:40:47 +0100 Message-ID: <20151114094047.GA2218@nanopsycho.orion> References: <77EF4405DD4BB54AACCE7DB593DF6A9A9FD653@SJEXCHMB14.corp.ad.broadcom.com> <20151112170801.GG20177@lunn.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Premkumar Jonnala , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Andrew Lunn Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f46.google.com ([74.125.82.46]:35476 "EHLO mail-wm0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751111AbbKNJkt (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Nov 2015 04:40:49 -0500 Received: by wmdw130 with SMTP id w130so56643303wmd.0 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 01:40:48 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151112170801.GG20177@lunn.ch> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 06:08:01PM CET, andrew@lunn.ch wrote: >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? I fear they are targeting some closed-source crap :/