From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vishwanathapura, Niranjana" Subject: Re: [RFC v3 01/11] IB/hfi-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) documentation Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 23:24:12 -0800 Message-ID: <20170223072412.GA57966@knc-06.sc.intel.com> References: <1486498990-76562-1-git-send-email-niranjana.vishwanathapura@intel.com> <1486498990-76562-2-git-send-email-niranjana.vishwanathapura@intel.com> <1486573231.16026.1.camel@sandisk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: "dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org" , "netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "dennis.dalessandro-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" , "ira.weiny-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" To: Bart Van Assche Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1486573231.16026.1.camel-XdAiOPVOjttBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 05:00:45PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: >On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 12:23 -0800, Vishwanathapura, Niranjana wrote: > >Please elaborate this section. What is a virtual Ethernet switch? Is it a >software entity or something that is implemented in hardware? Also, how are >these independent Ethernet networks identified on the wire? The Linux kernel >already supports IB partitions and Ethernet VLANs. How do these independent >Ethernet networks compare to IB partitions and Ethernet VLANs? Which wire- >level header contains the identity of these Ethernet networks? Is it >possible to query from user space which Ethernet network a VNIC belongs to? >If so, with which API and which tools? > I have added the VNIC packet format and some related information to the documentation in the PATCH series I just sent out. >Thanks, > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html