From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>
To: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@cumulusnetworks•com>,
Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>, netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
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alexander.h.duyck@intel•com,
Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@cumulusnetworks•com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 8/9] switchdev: introduce Netlink API
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 06:31:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <541D5770.3080305@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DDC24110-C3F5-470F-B9BE-1D1792415D1E@cumulusnetworks.com>
On 09/20/14 04:10, Scott Feldman wrote:
>
> On Sep 19, 2014, at 8:41 PM, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com> wrote:
>
>
> Existing rtnetlink isn’t available to swdev without some kind of snooping the echoes from the various kernel components
>(bridge, fib, etc).
You have made this claim before Scott and I am still not following.
Why do we need to echo things to get FDB or FIB to work? device ops for
FDB offload for example already exist. I think they need to be
revamped, but that consensus can be reasonably reached. Why do we
need this flow api for such activities?
cheers,
jamal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-20 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-19 13:49 [patch net-next v2 0/9] introduce rocker switch driver with hardware accelerated datapath api Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 1/9] net: rename netdev_phys_port_id to more generic name Jiri Pirko
[not found] ` <1411134590-4586-2-git-send-email-jiri-rHqAuBHg3fBzbRFIqnYvSA@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-19 13:54 ` Jeff Kirsher
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 3/9] rtnl: expose physical switch id for particular device Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 4/9] net-sysfs: " Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 5/9] net: introduce dummy switch Jiri Pirko
[not found] ` <1411134590-4586-6-git-send-email-jiri-rHqAuBHg3fBzbRFIqnYvSA@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-20 5:21 ` Florian Fainelli
2014-09-20 7:37 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 6/9] switchdev: add basic support for flow matching and actions Jiri Pirko
2014-09-20 5:32 ` Florian Fainelli
2014-09-20 7:28 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 7/9] switchdev: add swdev features Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 8/9] switchdev: introduce Netlink API Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 15:25 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-09-19 15:49 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 17:57 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-09-19 22:12 ` John Fastabend
2014-09-19 22:18 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-09-20 5:39 ` Florian Fainelli
2014-09-20 8:25 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-20 8:17 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-20 10:19 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-09-20 11:01 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-20 11:32 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-09-20 11:51 ` Thomas Graf
[not found] ` <20140920115140.GA3777-FZi0V3Vbi30CUdFEqe4BF2D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-20 12:35 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-09-22 7:53 ` Jiri Pirko
[not found] ` <20140922075337.GA1828-6KJVSR23iU488b5SBfVpbw@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-22 11:48 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-09-20 5:36 ` Florian Fainelli
2014-09-20 8:14 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-20 10:53 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-20 22:50 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2014-09-22 8:13 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-22 15:10 ` Tom Herbert
2014-09-22 22:17 ` Thomas Graf
[not found] ` <20140922221727.GA4708-FZi0V3Vbi30CUdFEqe4BF2D2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-22 22:40 ` Tom Herbert
2014-09-22 22:53 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-22 23:07 ` Tom Herbert
2014-09-23 1:36 ` John Fastabend
2014-09-23 7:19 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-23 11:09 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
[not found] ` <CA+mtBx9ZVQ5r5Hzy9-uEnk+iu+HKkOP4+VANC06Xf8VvTxktwQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-23 9:18 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-23 1:54 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2014-09-23 2:16 ` Tom Herbert
2014-09-23 4:11 ` Andy Gospodarek
2014-09-23 10:11 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-23 15:32 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-09-24 13:32 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-26 20:03 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-09-26 21:02 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-23 9:52 ` Thomas Graf
2014-09-20 3:41 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-09-20 8:09 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-20 12:39 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-09-20 8:10 ` Scott Feldman
2014-09-20 10:31 ` Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
[not found] ` <DDC24110-C3F5-470F-B9BE-1D1792415D1E-qUQiAmfTcIp+XZJcv9eMoEEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-20 12:51 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-09-20 17:21 ` Scott Feldman
2014-09-20 17:38 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-21 1:30 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 9/9] rocker: introduce rocker switch driver Jiri Pirko
[not found] ` <1411134590-4586-1-git-send-email-jiri-rHqAuBHg3fBzbRFIqnYvSA@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-19 13:49 ` [patch net-next v2 2/9] net: introduce generic switch devices support Jiri Pirko
2014-09-19 14:15 ` [patch net-next v2 0/9] introduce rocker switch driver with hardware accelerated datapath api David Laight
[not found] ` <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D17495CC6-VkEWCZq2GCInGFn1LkZF6NBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2014-09-19 14:20 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-09-20 5:37 ` Florian Fainelli
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-09-23 3:43 [patch net-next v2 8/9] switchdev: introduce Netlink API Alexei Starovoitov
2014-09-23 20:57 ` Tom Herbert
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