From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [oss-drivers] Re: [PATCH/RFC net-next 1/2] flow dissector: ND support Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2017 13:54:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20170208.135415.601520734521006340.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20170207.123831.1038511845714033360.davem@davemloft.net> <20170208092823.GA17615@penelope.horms.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: simon.horman@netronome.com, jiri@resnulli.us, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, dinan.gunawardena@netronome.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, oss-drivers@netronome.com To: tom@herbertland.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:56734 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752412AbdBHTA4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2017 14:00:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Tom Herbert Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 10:33:46 -0800 > On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Simon Horman wrote: >> I think the above paragraph gets back to Tom's original question regarding >> making things more complex just for OvS (use-cases). Possibly ND is an edge >> case even for OvS and on reflection my timing for posting it seems to have >> been less than ideal. > > If it wasn't ND it would be something else... with all the activity > happening in networking features and HW this is a timely discussion. > Flow dissector presents a good example of a function that might become > a dumping ground for an endless stream of features if we don't figure > out how exercise some restraint. I agree on most points. But, I would say that in this specific case, since we have ARP support in there already it behooves us to support the ipv6 side in the form of ND too. Then we can put a line in the sand and say that future feature additions in this area require serious discussion. Ok Tom?