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From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire•com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@dev•mellanox.co.il>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco•com>,
	fubar@us•ibm.com, general@lists•openfabrics.org,
	davem@davemloft•net
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: Re: [PATCH V3 0/7] net/bonding: ADD IPoIB support for	the bonding driver
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:19:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46AF44E0.50700@voltaire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070731140436.GA16015@mellanox.co.il>

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Maybe we could use hard_header_cache/header_cache_update methods instead of
> neighbour cleanup calls.

> To do this, it is possible that we'll have to switch from storing pointers
> inside the neighbour to keeping an index there, but I expect the
> performance impact to be minimal.
> 
> As a result, bonding would not have to copy pointers into ipoib module
> and module removal would get fixed.

To be precise, bonding will copy all the symbols it copies today from 
the slave module (ipoib), see bond_setup_by_slave() in patch 3/7, except 
for the neighbour cleanup callback which is copied through coping the 
neigh_setup function.

Or.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-31 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-30 12:37 [ofa-general] [PATCH V3 0/7] net/bonding: ADD IPoIB support for the bonding driver Moni Shoua
2007-07-30 12:48 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH V3 1/7] IB/ipoib: Bound the net device to the ipoib_neigh structue Moni Shoua
2007-07-30 12:49 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH V3 2/7] IB/ipoib: Verify address handle validity on send Moni Shoua
2007-07-30 12:51 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH V3 3/7] net/bonding: Enable bonding to enslave non ARPHRD_ETHER Moni Shoua
2007-07-30 12:52 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH V3 4/7] net/bonding: Enable bonding to enslave netdevices not supporting set_mac_address() Moni Shoua
2007-07-30 12:54 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH V3 5/7] net/bonding: Enable IP multicast for bonding IPoIB devices Moni Shoua
2007-07-30 12:54 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH V3 6/7] net/bonding: Handlle wrong assumptions that slave is always an Ethernet device Moni Shoua
2007-07-30 12:56 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH V3 7/7] net/bonding: Delay sending of gratuitous ARP to avoid failure Moni Shoua
2007-07-30 20:29   ` [ofa-general] " Jay Vosburgh
2007-07-31 13:33     ` Moni Shoua
2007-07-30 21:20 ` [PATCH V3 0/7] net/bonding: ADD IPoIB support for the bonding driver Roland Dreier
2007-07-31 13:44   ` [ofa-general] " Moni Shoua
2007-07-31 14:04     ` [ofa-general] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-07-31 14:19       ` Or Gerlitz [this message]
2007-07-31 14:22         ` [ofa-general] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-07-31 14:36           ` Or Gerlitz
2007-07-31 14:48             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-07-31 14:57               ` [ofa-general] " Or Gerlitz
2007-08-01 14:12           ` [ofa-general] Re: " Moni Shoua
2007-08-01 16:10             ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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