From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamal Hadi Salim Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 8/9] switchdev: introduce Netlink API Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:57:01 -0400 Message-ID: <541C6E6D.9000109@mojatatu.com> References: <1411134590-4586-1-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> <1411134590-4586-9-git-send-email-jiri@resnulli.us> <541C4AFC.8060500@mojatatu.com> <20140919154946.GH1980@nanopsycho.orion> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, nhorman@tuxdriver.com, andy@greyhouse.net, tgraf@suug.ch, dborkman@redhat.com, ogerlitz@mellanox.com, jesse@nicira.com, pshelar@nicira.com, azhou@nicira.com, ben@decadent.org.uk, stephen@networkplumber.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, vyasevic@redhat.com, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, john.r.fastabend@intel.com, edumazet@google.com, sfeldma@cumulusnetworks.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, linville@tuxdriver.com, dev@openvswitch.org, jasowang@redhat.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com, buytenh@wantstofly.org, aviadr@mellanox.com, nbd@openwrt.org, alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com, Neil.Jerram@metaswitch.com, ronye@mellanox.com, simon.horman@netronome.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com To: Jiri Pirko Return-path: Received: from mail-ie0-f170.google.com ([209.85.223.170]:51739 "EHLO mail-ie0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756626AbaISR5F (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:57:05 -0400 Received: by mail-ie0-f170.google.com with SMTP id x19so1100438ier.29 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:57:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140919154946.GH1980@nanopsycho.orion> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/19/14 11:49, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 05:25:48PM CEST, jhs@mojatatu.com wrote: >> Is this just a temporary test tool? Otherwise i dont see reason >> for its existence (or the API that it feeds on). > > Please read the conversation I had with Pravin and Jesse in v1 thread. > Long story short they like to have the api separated from ovs datapath > so ovs daemon can use it to directly communicate with driver. Also John > Fastabend requested a way to work with driver flows without using ovs -> > that was the original reason I created switchdev genl api. > > Regarding the "sw" tool, yes it is for testing purposes now. ovs daemon > will use directly switchdev genl api. > > I hope I cleared this out. > It is - thanks Jiri. cheers, jamal