From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
To: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel•com>
Cc: jhs@mojatatu•com, jamal <hadi@cyberus•ca>,
bhutchings@solarflare•com, roprabhu@cisco•com,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, mst@redhat•com, chrisw@redhat•com,
davem@davemloft•net, gregory.v.rose@intel•com,
kvm@vger•kernel.org, sri@us•ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v0 1/2] net: bridge: propagate FDB table into hardware
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:05:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120214110504.418461bd@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F3AAE80.4040609@intel.com>
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:57:04 -0800
John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel•com> wrote:
> On 2/14/2012 5:18 AM, jamal wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 07:13 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
> >
> >> The use case here is multiple VFs but the same solution should work with
> >> multiple PFs as well. FDB controls should be independent of how the ports
> >> are exposed VFs, PFs, VMDQ/queue pairs, macvlan, etc.
> >
> > Makes sense.
> >
> >> With events and ADD/DEL/GET FDB controls we can solve both cases. This also
> >> solves Roopa's case with macvlan where she wants to add additional addresses
> >> to macvlan ports.
> >
> > Not familiar with that issue - I'll prowl the list.
>
> Roopa was likely on the right track here,
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/123064/
>
> But I think the proper syntax is to use the existing PF_BRIDGE:RTM_XXX
> netlink messages. And if possible drive this without extending ndo_ops.
>
> An ideal user space interaction IMHO would look like,
>
> [root@jf-dev1-dcblab iproute2]# ./br/br fdb add 52:e5:62:7b:57:88 dev veth10
> [root@jf-dev1-dcblab iproute2]# ./br/br fdb
> port mac addr flags
> veth2 36:a6:35:9b:96:c4 local
> veth4 aa:54:b0:7b:42:ef local
> veth0 2a:e8:5c:95:6c:1b local
> veth6 6e:26:d5:43:a3:36 local
> veth0 f2:c1:39:76:6a:fb
> veth8 4e:35:16:af:87:13 local
> veth10 52:e5:62:7b:57:88 static
> veth10 aa:a9:35:21:15:c4 local
> [root@jf-dev1-dcblab iproute2]# ./br/br fdb add dev eth3 to 52:e5:62:7b:57:88
> RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
I am going to put bridge (nameclash with br) tool into iproute2 (soon).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-14 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-09 3:22 [RFC PATCH v0 1/2] net: bridge: propagate FDB table into hardware John Fastabend
2012-02-09 3:22 ` [RFC PATCH v0 2/2] ixgbe: add NETIF_F_HW_FDB to supported flags John Fastabend
2012-02-09 4:36 ` [RFC PATCH v0 1/2] net: bridge: propagate FDB table into hardware Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-09 17:36 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-09 17:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-09 17:52 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-09 21:11 ` jamal
2012-02-10 2:14 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-10 4:14 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-10 15:18 ` jamal
2012-02-10 16:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-13 13:54 ` jamal
2012-02-13 15:13 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-14 13:18 ` jamal
2012-02-14 18:57 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-14 19:05 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-02-14 19:08 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-15 14:10 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-02-16 1:26 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-17 14:28 ` jamal
2012-02-17 17:10 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-18 12:41 ` jamal
2012-02-29 4:40 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-29 5:14 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-29 13:57 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-02-29 13:56 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-02-29 17:25 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-29 17:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-29 18:19 ` John Fastabend
2012-03-01 13:36 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-03-01 22:17 ` John Fastabend
2012-03-02 13:20 ` jamal
2012-03-05 17:00 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-03-01 13:24 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-03-01 14:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-03-01 22:10 ` John Fastabend
2012-03-05 16:53 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-03-06 3:45 ` John Fastabend
2012-03-06 14:15 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-03-06 13:42 ` jamal
2012-03-06 14:09 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-03-07 14:11 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-03-12 8:48 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2012-03-13 13:52 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-02-16 3:58 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-02-16 19:18 ` Shradha Shah
2012-02-17 14:37 ` jamal
2012-02-10 13:45 ` Roopa Prabhu
2012-02-09 18:14 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2012-02-09 20:30 ` John Fastabend
2012-02-10 0:39 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2012-02-10 0:51 ` John Fastabend
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