From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Fastabend Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: enable l2 forwarding acceleration for macvlans Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:48:33 -0700 Message-ID: <525B0721.7060709@gmail.com> References: <1380140209-24587-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> <1381517037-26007-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> <1381517037-26007-3-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andy Gospodarek , David Miller To: Neil Horman Return-path: Received: from mail-oa0-f49.google.com ([209.85.219.49]:61087 "EHLO mail-oa0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755160Ab3JMUsy (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:48:54 -0400 Received: by mail-oa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id j10so1095751oah.8 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:48:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1381517037-26007-3-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > CC: john.fastabend@gmail.com > CC: Andy Gospodarek > CC: "David S. Miller" > --- 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