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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
To: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel•com>
Cc: roprabhu@cisco•com, mst@redhat•com, stephen.hemminger@vyatta•com,
	davem@davemloft•net, hadi@cyberus•ca, bhutchings@solarflare•com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	gregory.v.rose@intel•com, krkumar2@in•ibm.com, sri@us•ibm.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v1 0/7] Managing the forwarding database(FDB)
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 15:15:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120409151501.23ff83f6@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120409215419.3288.50790.stgit@jf-dev1-dcblab>

On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:00:11 -0700
John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel•com> wrote:

> The following series is a submission for net-next to allow
> embedded switches and other stacked devices other then the
> Linux bridge to manage a forwarding database.
> 
> This was previously posted here (where it was deferred for
> more review and testing)
> 
> http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2012/03/19/26
> 
> This series adds macvlan support per discussions with Roopa
> and Michael. Also ixgbe was updated to support adding multicast
> addresses per request from Greg Rose.
> 
> Finally cleanups in the generic dump routines were added
> for multicast to support ixgbe and macvlan use cases.
> 
> Thanks to everyone for the helpful review and comments. As
> always any comments/feedback welcome.
> 
> .John
> 
> ---
> 
> Greg Rose (1):
>       ixgbe: UTA table incorrectly programmed
> 
> John Fastabend (6):
>       macvlan: add FDB bridge ops and new macvlan mode
>       ixgbe: allow RAR table to be updated in promisc mode
>       ixgbe: enable FDB netdevice ops
>       net: add fdb generic dump routine
>       net: addr_list: add exclusive dev_uc_add and dev_mc_add
>       net: add generic PF_BRIDGE:RTM_ FDB hooks
> 
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c |  121 ++++++++++----
>  drivers/net/macvlan.c                         |   60 ++++++-
>  include/linux/if_link.h                       |    1 
>  include/linux/neighbour.h                     |    3 
>  include/linux/netdevice.h                     |   28 +++
>  include/linux/rtnetlink.h                     |    4 
>  net/bridge/br_device.c                        |    3 
>  net/bridge/br_fdb.c                           |  128 ++++-----------
>  net/bridge/br_netlink.c                       |   12 -
>  net/bridge/br_private.h                       |   15 +-
>  net/core/dev_addr_lists.c                     |   97 ++++++++++--
>  net/core/rtnetlink.c                          |  209 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  12 files changed, 508 insertions(+), 173 deletions(-)
> 

How do statistics work in this case? What if you wanted to do BRIDGE MIB?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-09 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-09 22:00 [net-next PATCH v1 0/7] Managing the forwarding database(FDB) John Fastabend
2012-04-09 22:00 ` [net-next PATCH v1 1/7] net: add generic PF_BRIDGE:RTM_ FDB hooks John Fastabend
2012-04-11  3:23   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-04-11 14:45     ` John Fastabend
2012-04-11 16:05       ` Ben Hutchings
2012-04-11 17:22         ` John Fastabend
2012-04-09 22:00 ` [net-next PATCH v1 2/7] net: addr_list: add exclusive dev_uc_add and dev_mc_add John Fastabend
2012-04-10  8:03   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-11  3:33   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-04-11 14:46     ` John Fastabend
2012-04-09 22:00 ` [net-next PATCH v1 3/7] net: add fdb generic dump routine John Fastabend
2012-04-11  3:45   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-04-11 14:46     ` John Fastabend
2012-04-09 22:00 ` [net-next PATCH v1 4/7] ixgbe: enable FDB netdevice ops John Fastabend
2012-04-09 22:00 ` [net-next PATCH v1 5/7] ixgbe: allow RAR table to be updated in promisc mode John Fastabend
2012-04-09 22:00 ` [net-next PATCH v1 6/7] ixgbe: UTA table incorrectly programmed John Fastabend
2012-04-09 22:00 ` [net-next PATCH v1 7/7] macvlan: add FDB bridge ops and new macvlan mode John Fastabend
2012-04-10  8:09   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-10  8:14     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-10 13:50       ` John Fastabend
2012-04-10 14:33         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-10 15:29           ` John Fastabend
2012-04-10 15:32             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-10 13:27     ` John Fastabend
2012-04-10 13:43       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-10 14:25         ` John Fastabend
2012-04-10 14:35           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-10 15:26             ` John Fastabend
2012-04-10 15:30               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-10 15:35                 ` John Fastabend
2012-04-11  0:46                   ` Sridhar Samudrala
2012-04-11  1:42                     ` John Fastabend
2012-04-11  8:02                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-11 14:32                         ` John Fastabend
2012-04-09 22:15 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-04-09 22:32   ` [net-next PATCH v1 0/7] Managing the forwarding database(FDB) John Fastabend

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