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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

  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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