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From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: enable l2 forwarding acceleration for macvlans
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:48:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <525B0721.7060709@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1381517037-26007-3-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

On 10/11/2013 11:43 AM, Neil Horman wrote:
> Now that l2 acceleration ops are in place from the prior patch, enable ixgbe to
> take advantage of these operations.  Allow it to allocate queues for a macvlan
> so that when we transmit a frame, we can do the switching in hardware inside the
> ixgbe card, rather than in software.
>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
> CC: john.fastabend@gmail.com
> CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> ---

Neil, I'm fairly sure I can simplify this patch further. I'll be able
to take a shot at it Tuesday if you don't mind waiting.

I can resubmit the series then and preserve your signed-off on at least
the first patch. Seem reasonable?

.John

-- 
John Fastabend         Intel Corporation

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-13 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-11 18:45 [RFC PATCH 0/4] Series short description John Fastabend
2013-09-11 18:46 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] net: rtnetlink: make priv_size a function for devs with dynamic size John Fastabend
2013-09-11 18:46 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] net: Add lower dev list helpers John Fastabend
2013-09-14 12:27   ` Veaceslav Falico
2013-09-14 20:43     ` John Fastabend
2013-09-14 21:14       ` Veaceslav Falico
2013-09-11 18:47 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] net: VSI: Add virtual station interface support John Fastabend
2013-09-20 23:12   ` Neil Horman
2013-09-21 17:30     ` John Fastabend
2013-09-22 16:44       ` Neil Horman
2013-09-11 18:47 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] ixgbe: Adding VSI support to ixgbe John Fastabend
2013-09-25 20:16 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: alternate proposal for using macvlans with forwarding acceleration Neil Horman
2013-09-25 20:16   ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] net: Add layer 2 hardware acceleration operations for macvlan devices Neil Horman
2013-10-02  7:08     ` John Fastabend
2013-10-02 12:53       ` Neil Horman
2013-09-25 20:16   ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: enable l2 forwarding acceleration for macvlans Neil Horman
2013-10-02  6:31   ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: alternate proposal for using macvlans with forwarding acceleration John Fastabend
2013-10-02 13:28     ` Neil Horman
2013-10-04 20:10   ` [RFC PATCH 0/2 v2] " Neil Horman
2013-10-04 20:10     ` [PATCH 1/2] net: Add layer 2 hardware acceleration operations for macvlan devices Neil Horman
2013-10-07 19:52       ` David Miller
2013-10-07 21:20         ` Neil Horman
2013-10-07 21:34           ` David Miller
2013-10-07 22:39             ` John Fastabend
2013-10-08  0:52               ` Neil Horman
2013-10-04 20:10     ` [PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: enable l2 forwarding acceleration for macvlans Neil Horman
2013-10-07 22:09     ` [RFC PATCH 0/2 v2] net: alternate proposal for using macvlans with forwarding acceleration John Fastabend
2013-10-08  1:08       ` Neil Horman
2013-10-11 18:43   ` [RFC PATCH 0/2 v3] " Neil Horman
2013-10-11 18:43     ` [PATCH 1/2] net: Add layer 2 hardware acceleration operations for macvlan devices Neil Horman
2013-10-13 20:46       ` John Fastabend
2013-10-14 10:48         ` Neil Horman
2013-10-11 18:43     ` [PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: enable l2 forwarding acceleration for macvlans Neil Horman
2013-10-13 20:48       ` John Fastabend [this message]
2013-10-14 10:50         ` Neil Horman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-11-04 17:15 [PATCH 0/2] l2 hardware accelerated macvlans John Fastabend
2013-11-04 17:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: enable l2 forwarding acceleration for macvlans John Fastabend

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