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From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
To: Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@gmail.com>
Cc: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>,
	Yan Burman <yanb@mellanox.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: ethtool: Add destination MAC address to flow steering API
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:57:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C79E51.1000904@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZOPZJfqdrxKp8ZPTXs_-07XSdPoKu+bNQNZzkeTRgP-R2XnQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/11/2012 11:55 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Alexander Duyck
> <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is there any special reason why you need to change the size of this
>> structure?  It seems like you could probably just replace the data
>> section with a union containing either 8 bytes of user specified data or
>> your MAC address data.  Then we wouldn't need all of the changes to the
>> rest of the flow specifier.
> 
> 
> basically, we followed Ben's suggestions made here
> http://marc.info/?t=134977576500003
> 

After looking over Ben's suggestion it makes sense.

Since I am pretty much responsible for the ixgbe implementation of this
I will do a few quick tests once the patches are applied to make certain
that there were no issues introduced on our end.

Thanks,

Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-11 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-11 12:03 [PATCH net-next 0/3] Add destination MAC address to ethtool flow steering Amir Vadai
2012-12-11 12:03 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: ethtool: Add destination MAC address to flow steering API Amir Vadai
2012-12-11 17:37   ` Alexander Duyck
2012-12-11 19:55     ` Or Gerlitz
2012-12-11 20:57       ` Alexander Duyck [this message]
2012-12-12 17:17   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-12-11 12:03 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] net/mlx4_en: Add support for destination MAC in steering rules Amir Vadai
2012-12-11 15:38   ` Brian Haley
2012-12-12 10:07     ` Amir Vadai
2012-12-11 12:03 ` [PATCH ETHTOOL] Added dst-mac parameter for L3/L4 flow spec rules. This is usefull in vSwitch configurations Amir Vadai
2013-01-22 20:27   ` Ben Hutchings

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