From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel@savoirfairelinux.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com,
andrew@lunn.ch, cphealy@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: dsa: add fabric notifier
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:56:08 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170206.165608.1431079109938205254.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170203182021.14246-1-vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 13:20:15 -0500
> When a switch fabric is composed of multiple switch chips, these chips
> must be programmed accordingly when an event occurred on one of them.
>
> Examples of such event include hardware bridging: when a Linux bridge
> spans interconnected chips, they must be programmed to allow external
> ports to ingress frames on their internal ports.
>
> Another example is cross-chip hardware VLANs. Switch chips in-between
> interconnected bridge ports must also configure a given VLAN to allow
> packets to pass through them.
>
> In order to support that, this patchset introduces a non-intrusive
> notifier mechanism. It adds a notifier head in every DSA switch tree
> (the said fabric), and a notifier block in every DSA switch chip.
...
Series applied, thanks Vivien.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-06 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-03 18:20 [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: dsa: add fabric notifier Vivien Didelot
2017-02-03 18:20 ` [PATCH net-next 1/6] net: dsa: move netdevice notifier registration Vivien Didelot
2017-02-03 18:20 ` [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: dsa: simplify netdevice events handling Vivien Didelot
2017-02-04 2:43 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-02-04 16:13 ` Vivien Didelot
2017-02-03 18:20 ` [PATCH net-next 3/6] net: dsa: rollback bridging on error Vivien Didelot
2017-02-03 18:20 ` [PATCH net-next 4/6] net: dsa: change state setter scope Vivien Didelot
2017-02-03 18:20 ` [PATCH net-next 5/6] net: dsa: add switch notifier Vivien Didelot
2017-02-03 18:20 ` [PATCH net-next 6/6] net: dsa: introduce bridge notifier Vivien Didelot
2017-02-04 17:55 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-02-04 18:26 ` Vivien Didelot
2017-02-04 18:30 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-02-06 21:56 ` David Miller [this message]
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