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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>
To: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail•com>
Cc: Netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	"Jiří Pírko" <jiri@resnulli•us>,
	"Roopa Prabhu" <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>,
	"alexander.h.duyck@redhat•com" <alexander.h.duyck@redhat•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/8] netdevice: add IPv4 fib add/del ops
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 09:47:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54FDA458.6040601@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE4R7bAcfJ8M0eQMdZdS3aDgPVWSQznABZymGq+PU34vJx1suA@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/06/15 14:59, Scott Feldman wrote:
>
> I considered passing netlink flags in to driver, but the kernel logic
> in fib_table_insert() already takes care of the checks required by the
> flags, and from the driver's perspective, only three ops are needed:
> add, del, and mod.  And I've combined add and mod into the same op,
> with the assumption the driver can know if an entry exists or not.
>

That assumption is not accurate. At least in some hardware i am working
on right now a mod is cheaper than a create (and if i have to "know"
wheter i should create or modify then i actually i have to query the
hardware).

cheers,
jamal

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-09 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-06  5:21 [PATCH net-next v4 0/8] switchdev: add IPv4 routing offload sfeldma
2015-03-06  5:21 ` [PATCH net-next v4 1/8] rtnetlink: add RTNH_F_EXTERNAL flag for fib offload sfeldma
2015-03-06  5:21 ` [PATCH net-next v4 2/8] netdevice: add IPv4 fib add/del ops sfeldma
2015-03-06 14:55   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-03-06 19:59     ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-08 14:31       ` roopa
2015-03-08 22:16         ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-09  6:22           ` roopa
2015-03-09  8:38             ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-09 13:47       ` Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
2015-03-09 18:07         ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-06  5:21 ` [PATCH net-next v4 3/8] switchdev: add IPv4 fib ndo ops wrappers sfeldma
2015-03-06  5:21 ` [PATCH net-next v4 4/8] switchdev: don't support custom ip rules, for now sfeldma
2015-03-06  5:21 ` [PATCH net-next v4 5/8] switchdev: implement IPv4 fib ndo wrappers sfeldma
2015-03-06  7:24   ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-06  9:38     ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-06 11:53       ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-06  5:21 ` [PATCH net-next v4 6/8] ipv4: add net bool fib_offload_disabled sfeldma
2015-03-06  5:21 ` [PATCH net-next v4 7/8] fib: hook IPv4 fib for hardware offload sfeldma
2015-03-06  5:21 ` [PATCH net-next v4 8/8] rocker: implement IPv4 fib offloading sfeldma
2015-03-06  5:27 ` [PATCH net-next v4 0/8] switchdev: add IPv4 routing offload David Miller
2015-03-06 15:43 ` Alexander Duyck

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