From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pl0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:45379 "EHLO mail-pl0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932970AbeCNAyJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:54:09 -0400 Received: by mail-pl0-f41.google.com with SMTP id v9-v6so803935plp.12 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:54:06 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: "Samudrala, Sridhar" Cc: Jiri Pirko , 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 Message-ID: <20180313175406.32fddf33@xeon-e3> In-Reply-To: <45ca2aec-6475-06e6-7a38-be6b8aeb362b@intel.com> References: <1519934923-39372-1-git-send-email-sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> <1519934923-39372-3-git-send-email-sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> <20180312201231.GA17283@nanopsycho> <4bfb0f35-cbb4-b9e1-b8b6-9fb723c29140@intel.com> <20180312210812.GB17283@nanopsycho> <45ca2aec-6475-06e6-7a38-be6b8aeb362b@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:36:23 -0700 "Samudrala, Sridhar" 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.