From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamal Hadi Salim Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] OVS Offload Decision Proposal Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 08:16:27 -0500 Message-ID: <54F8572B.4020309@mojatatu.com> References: <54F7B76E.4040902@gmail.com> <20150305.000015.1427044514000703740.davem@davemloft.net> <20150305.014257.974664546228241067.davem@davemloft.net> <54F80815.5030208@gmail.com> <54F84E21.7030207@mojatatu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: therbert@google.com, davidch@broadcom.com, simon.horman@netronome.com, dev@openvswitch.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, pablo@netfilter.org To: John Fastabend , David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-ig0-f172.google.com ([209.85.213.172]:44598 "EHLO mail-ig0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750934AbbCENQa (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2015 08:16:30 -0500 Received: by igdh15 with SMTP id h15so45585804igd.3 for ; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 05:16:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <54F84E21.7030207@mojatatu.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/05/15 07:37, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: > On 03/05/15 02:39, John Fastabend wrote: > Would kernel boot/module options passed to the driver not suffice? > That implies a central authority that decides what these table size > slicing looks like. > >> Once the reservation of resources occurs we wouldn't let user space >> arbitrarily write to any table but only tables that have been >> explicitly reserved for user space to write to. Seems i misread what you are saying. I thought you wanted to just create the tables from user space directly; however, rereading the above: you are actually asking *to write* to these tables directly from user space ;-> cheers, jamal