From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>
To: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail•com>
Cc: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail•com>,
Netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox•com>,
eladr@mellanox•com, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug•ch>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid•com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 09/14] rocker: add rtnl ops for port mode [gs]etting
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 19:24:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151005172407.GS2278@nanopsycho.orion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5612AE52.9040809@gmail.com>
Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 07:07:30PM CEST, john.fastabend@gmail•com wrote:
<snip>
>>
>> Again, to make this clear, worlds are not just a rehash of tables.
>>
>
>what are they then? Lets model those bits and let users configure them
>at runtime.
>
>So far I've had really good results modelling hardware as a 'parser',
>a set of tables, and a set of modify blocks. Now this breaks when you
>start to add black boxes in there for other functions such as encryption
>but I don't think your getting at that. Do you see something that
>couldn't be configured/modelled with those blocks?
How about an arbitrary BPF program? I can implement world that bases
mangling/forwarding packets on intensity of gravitational field.
Rocker hw is very free in that and cannot be pushed down to "table boxes".
That is making it a wild animal and challenges us to wrap it up in
kernel, somehow.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-05 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-04 21:25 [patch net-next 00/14] rocker: add support for multiple worlds Jiri Pirko
2015-10-04 21:25 ` [patch net-next 01/14] rocker: remove unused rocker_port param from alloc funcs and shorten their names Jiri Pirko
2015-10-04 21:25 ` [patch net-next 02/14] rocker: rename rocker.h to rocker_hw.h Jiri Pirko
2015-10-04 21:25 ` [patch net-next 03/14] rocker: rename rocker.c to rocker_main.c Jiri Pirko
2015-10-04 21:25 ` [patch net-next 04/14] rocker: push tlv processing into separate files Jiri Pirko
2015-10-04 21:25 ` [patch net-next 05/14] rocker: implement set settings mode command Jiri Pirko
2015-10-06 4:51 ` Scott Feldman
2015-10-04 21:25 ` [patch net-next 06/14] rocker: introduce worlds infrastructure Jiri Pirko
2015-10-04 21:25 ` [patch net-next 07/14] rocker: introduce OF-DPA world skeleton Jiri Pirko
2015-10-04 21:25 ` [patch net-next 08/14] rocker: set default world on port probe and clean world on remove Jiri Pirko
2015-10-04 21:25 ` [patch net-next 09/14] rocker: add rtnl ops for port mode [gs]etting Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05 15:41 ` Scott Feldman
2015-10-05 15:52 ` John Fastabend
2015-10-05 16:37 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05 17:07 ` John Fastabend
2015-10-05 17:24 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2015-10-05 17:43 ` John Fastabend
2015-10-05 17:50 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05 15:53 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05 16:37 ` Scott Feldman
2015-10-05 16:50 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05 17:00 ` Scott Feldman
2015-10-05 17:12 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-04 21:25 ` [patch net-next 10/14] rocker: pass "learning" value as a parameter to rocker_port_set_learning Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05 15:16 ` David Laight
2015-10-05 15:24 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-04 21:25 ` [patch net-next 11/14] rocker: pre-allocate wait structures during cmd ring init Jiri Pirko
2015-10-04 21:25 ` [patch net-next 12/14] rocker: remove trans parameter to rocker_cmd_exec function Jiri Pirko
2015-10-04 21:25 ` [patch net-next 13/14] rocker: call rocker_cmd_exec function with "nowait" boolean instead of flags Jiri Pirko
2015-10-04 21:25 ` [patch net-next 14/14] rocker: move OF-DPA stuff into separate file Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05 15:41 ` [patch net-next 00/14] rocker: add support for multiple worlds John Fastabend
2015-10-05 16:30 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05 16:58 ` John Fastabend
2015-10-05 17:39 ` Jiri Pirko
2015-10-05 17:56 ` John Fastabend
2015-10-05 17:49 ` Scott Feldman
2015-10-06 7:34 ` John Fastabend
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