From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: mpm@selenic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
gospo@redhat.com, nhorman@tuxdriver.com,
shemminger@linux-foundation.org,
bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, fubar@us.ibm.com,
jmoyer@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 1/3] netpoll: add generic support for bridge and bonding devices
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:15:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA84E6C.5030503@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100322.215822.123414773.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:47:39 +0800
>
>> Yeah, for bonding case, probably. But for bridge case, I think
>> we still need to check all, right?
>
> Why? Who cares?
>
> If it goes out one port and reaches it's destination
> the objective has been achieved.
>
> Sending it out N more times achieves nothing.
We have to check which port has the right destination.
Ideally we should check the right destination address to
choose the port, but currently we don't have a generic
way to check this, thus I chose to send it to all ports.
You are right, this needs to be improved.
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-23 5:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-22 8:17 [RFC Patch 1/3] netpoll: add generic support for bridge and bonding devices Amerigo Wang
2010-03-22 8:17 ` [RFC Patch 2/3] bridge: make bridge support netpoll Amerigo Wang
2010-03-22 22:35 ` Matt Mackall
2010-03-23 2:03 ` Cong Wang
2010-03-23 4:27 ` Matt Mackall
2010-03-23 4:39 ` Cong Wang
2010-03-23 4:51 ` Matt Mackall
2010-03-23 4:59 ` David Miller
2010-03-23 5:00 ` Cong Wang
2010-03-23 4:57 ` David Miller
2010-03-23 5:06 ` Cong Wang
2010-03-22 8:17 ` [RFC Patch 3/3] bonding: make bonding " Amerigo Wang
2010-03-22 22:38 ` Matt Mackall
2010-03-22 23:36 ` Jay Vosburgh
2010-03-23 2:01 ` Cong Wang
2010-03-23 0:56 ` Andy Gospodarek
2010-03-23 1:49 ` Cong Wang
2010-03-22 22:31 ` [RFC Patch 1/3] netpoll: add generic support for bridge and bonding devices Matt Mackall
2010-03-23 2:13 ` Cong Wang
2010-03-23 3:49 ` David Miller
2010-03-23 4:47 ` Cong Wang
2010-03-23 4:58 ` David Miller
2010-03-23 5:15 ` Cong Wang [this message]
2010-03-23 12:11 ` Jeff Moyer
2010-03-24 2:29 ` Cong Wang
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