From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>
To: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail•com>,
Hubert Sokolowski <h.sokolowski@wit•edu.pl>,
"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat•com>,
Shrijeet Mukherjee <shm@cumulusnetworks•com>
Subject: Re: SRIOV as bridge Re: [PATCH net-next RESEND] net: Do not call ndo_dflt_fdb_dump if ndo_fdb_dump is defined.
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 15:06:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54972859.7050108@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54972140.30704@cumulusnetworks.com>
On 12/21/14 14:36, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> On 12/21/14, 11:19 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>> On 12/21/14 14:08, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> 'self' would just mean the driver owns the PF embedded bridge and the
> kernel bridge driver has no role in this. 'self' will just tell the VF
> driver to deal with the fdb mac entry. And the VF driver can push the
> fdb to the PF (John can confirm if the intel sriov devices really do it
> this way or some other way).
>
If the VFs are exposed as netdevs and the master (or Parent which i
think the "P" stands for) they point to
is the PF - then is the PF a bridge abstraction?
And if the path is via is the PF - i think that seems like "master"
not self, no?
cheers,
jamal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-21 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-10 19:37 [PATCH net-next RESEND] net: Do not call ndo_dflt_fdb_dump if ndo_fdb_dump is defined Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-11 4:32 ` David Miller
2014-12-11 11:49 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-11 16:51 ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-11 7:31 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-11 16:39 ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-11 18:47 ` Arad, Ronen
2014-12-11 17:06 ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-11 17:32 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-11 20:40 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-12 11:38 ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-12 11:54 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-12 13:36 ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-12 14:35 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-12 20:05 ` John Fastabend
2014-12-15 14:29 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-16 0:45 ` John Fastabend
2014-12-16 13:06 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-16 14:35 ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-16 16:35 ` John Fastabend
2014-12-16 17:21 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2014-12-16 19:30 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-16 20:11 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2014-12-17 5:54 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-21 14:27 ` SRIOV as bridge " Jamal Hadi Salim
[not found] ` <443500166.23675449.1419179623398.JavaMail.zimbra@cumulusnetworks.com>
2014-12-21 16:33 ` Shrijeet Mukherjee
2014-12-21 19:08 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-21 19:19 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-21 19:36 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-21 20:06 ` Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
2014-12-21 20:46 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-22 3:13 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-22 6:24 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-22 12:10 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-22 13:04 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-21 19:52 ` John Fastabend
2014-12-22 2:59 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-21 14:46 ` SRIOV fdb and modes WAS(Re: " Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-17 5:51 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-17 15:39 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-12-17 16:18 ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-18 22:32 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-19 15:17 ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-19 16:32 ` Roopa Prabhu
2015-01-05 12:56 ` Hubert Sokolowski
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