From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@savoirfairelinux.com,
f.fainelli@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/20] net: dsa: distribute switch events
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 16:48:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170522144825.GG29447@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170522.104557.1244582147577060590.davem@davemloft.net>
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:45:57AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
> Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 17:00:35 -0400
>
> > DSA is by nature the support for a switch fabric, which can be composed
> > of a single, or multiple interconnected Ethernet switch chips.
> >
> > The current DSA core behavior is to identify the slave port targeted by
> > a request (e.g. adding a VLAN entry), and program the switch chip to
> > which it belongs accordingly.
> >
> > This is problematic in a multi-chip environment, since all chips of a
> > fabric must be aware of most configuration changes. Here are some
> > concrete examples in a 3-chip environment:
> ...
> > This patch series uses the notification chain introduced for bridging,
> > to notify not only bridge, but switchdev attributes and objects events
> > to all switch chips of the fabric.
>
> Andrew or Florian, can I get a review?
Yes, it is on my TODO list for today/tomorrow.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-22 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-19 21:00 [PATCH net-next 00/20] net: dsa: distribute switch events Vivien Didelot
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 01/20] net: dsa: change scope of STP state setter Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:23 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 02/20] net: dsa: change scope of notifier call chain Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:24 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 03/20] net: dsa: change scope of bridging code Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:24 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 04/20] net: dsa: change scope of FDB handlers Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:25 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 05/20] net: dsa: change scope of MDB handlers Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:26 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 06/20] net: dsa: change scope of VLAN handlers Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:27 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 07/20] net: dsa: change scope of VLAN filtering setter Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:27 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 08/20] net: dsa: change scope of ageing time setter Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:29 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 09/20] net: dsa: move port state setters Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:31 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 10/20] net: dsa: move bridging routines Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:32 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 11/20] net: dsa: move VLAN filtering setter Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:33 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 12/20] net: dsa: move ageing time setter Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:34 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 13/20] net: dsa: move FDB handlers Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:34 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 14/20] net: dsa: move MDB handlers Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:35 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 15/20] net: dsa: move VLAN handlers Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:36 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 16/20] net: dsa: move notifier info to private header Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:37 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 17/20] net: dsa: add notifier for ageing time Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:38 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-22 20:45 ` Vivien Didelot
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 18/20] net: dsa: add FDB notifier Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:39 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 19/20] net: dsa: add MDB notifier Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:39 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-19 21:00 ` [PATCH net-next 20/20] net: dsa: add VLAN notifier Vivien Didelot
2017-05-22 19:41 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-22 14:45 ` [PATCH net-next 00/20] net: dsa: distribute switch events David Miller
2017-05-22 14:48 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2017-05-22 20:01 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-05-22 23:31 ` David Miller
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