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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	mst@redhat.com, davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com,
	alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, kubakici@wp.pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] virtio_net: Extend virtio to use VF datapath when available
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:54:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180313175406.32fddf33@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45ca2aec-6475-06e6-7a38-be6b8aeb362b@intel.com>

On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:36:23 -0700
"Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> wrote:

> OK. looks like you want to see atleast some code shared between netvsc and virtio_net
> even when they are using 2 different netdev models.
> Will try to add a new file under net/core and move some functions that can be shared
> between netvsc and virtio_net in BACKUP mode.

Make it work first (on both) then workout how to share.
That method worked quite well for tunnels and other netdev like objects.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-14  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-01 20:08 [PATCH v4 0/2] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a passthru device Sridhar Samudrala
2018-03-01 20:08 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] virtio_net: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_BACKUP feature bit Sridhar Samudrala
2018-03-01 20:08 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] virtio_net: Extend virtio to use VF datapath when available Sridhar Samudrala
2018-03-02  8:36   ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-02 15:26     ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-02 16:20       ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-02 16:37         ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-02 17:06           ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-02 19:42         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-02 20:49           ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-03 11:31           ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-03 18:04             ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-03 21:25               ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-04  0:26                 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-04  7:13                   ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-04 18:24                     ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-04 18:50                       ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-04 21:54                         ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-04 21:58                         ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-05  9:21                           ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-05 16:11                             ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-03-05 22:30                               ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-05 22:47                                 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-06  3:15                                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-03-06 19:08                                     ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-06 22:59                                       ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-06 23:27                                         ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-07  2:38                                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-07 17:50                                             ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-07 18:06                                               ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-03-07 18:55                                                 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-07 20:11                                                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-12 18:47                                                   ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-02 19:41       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-02 19:52         ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-02 20:10           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-02 20:44             ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-02 20:56               ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-02 21:33                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-02 21:31               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-02 22:26                 ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-04  4:00                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-02 21:11   ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-02 21:36     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-02 23:56       ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-04  4:04         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-12 21:53           ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-02 23:12     ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-03  0:09       ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-12 20:12   ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-12 20:58     ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-12 21:08       ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-14  0:36         ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-14  0:54           ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-03-14 15:45           ` Jiri Pirko
2018-03-12 22:44   ` Siwei Liu
2018-03-14  0:28     ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-03-14  0:44       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-03-14  4:50       ` Siwei Liu

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