From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
To: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@waldekranz•com>
Cc: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail•com>,
davem@davemloft•net, kuba@kernel•org, vivien.didelot@gmail•com,
f.fainelli@gmail•com, roopa@nvidia•com, nikolay@nvidia•com,
jiri@resnulli•us, idosch@idosch•org, stephen@networkplumber•org,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, bridge@lists•linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 6/9] net: dsa: Forward offloading
Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 22:33:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJGvkJBKPj2WloXf@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kfintzh.fsf@waldekranz.com>
> There is really no need to recompute the static parts of the tags on
> each skb. It would mean moving some knowledge of the tagging format to
> the driver. But that boundary is pretty artificial for
> mv88e6xxx. tag_dsa has no use outside of mv88e6xxx, and mv88e6xxx does
> not work with any other tagger. I suppose you could even move the whole
> tagger to drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6xxx/?
>
> What do you think?
>
> Andrew?
We have resisted this before.
What information do you actually need to share between the tagger and
the driver? Both tag_lan9303.c and tag_ocelot_8021q.c do reference
their switch driver data structures, so some sharing is allowed. But
please try to keep the surface areas down.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-04 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-26 17:04 [RFC net-next 0/9] net: bridge: Forward offloading Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-26 17:04 ` [RFC net-next 1/9] net: dfwd: Constrain existing users to macvlan subordinates Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-26 17:04 ` [RFC net-next 2/9] net: bridge: Disambiguate offload_fwd_mark Tobias Waldekranz
2021-05-02 15:00 ` Ido Schimmel
2021-05-03 8:49 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-05-05 7:39 ` Ido Schimmel
2021-04-26 17:04 ` [RFC net-next 3/9] net: bridge: switchdev: Recycle unused hwdoms Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-27 10:42 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2021-04-26 17:04 ` [RFC net-next 4/9] net: bridge: switchdev: Forward offloading Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-27 10:35 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2021-04-28 22:47 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-29 9:16 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2021-04-29 14:55 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-05-02 15:04 ` Ido Schimmel
2021-05-03 8:53 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-05-06 11:01 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-04-26 17:04 ` [RFC net-next 5/9] net: dsa: Track port PVIDs Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-26 19:40 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-04-26 20:05 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-26 20:28 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-04-27 9:12 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-27 9:27 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-04-27 10:07 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-04-28 23:10 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-26 17:04 ` [RFC net-next 6/9] net: dsa: Forward offloading Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-27 10:17 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-05-04 14:44 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-05-04 15:21 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-05-04 20:07 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-05-04 20:33 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2021-05-04 21:24 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-05-04 20:58 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-05-04 22:12 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-05-04 23:04 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-05-05 9:01 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-05-05 16:12 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-04-26 17:04 ` [RFC net-next 7/9] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Allocate a virtual DSA port for each bridge Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-26 17:04 ` [RFC net-next 8/9] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Map virtual bridge port in PVT Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-26 17:04 ` [RFC net-next 9/9] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Forward offloading Tobias Waldekranz
2021-05-02 14:58 ` [RFC net-next 0/9] net: bridge: " Ido Schimmel
2021-05-03 9:44 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-05-06 10:59 ` Vladimir Oltean
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