Le 27/04/2016 17:14, Jiri Pirko a écrit : > Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:56:15AM CEST, f...@strlen.de wrote: >> Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> wrote: >>> This patch adds the support of the 6WIND SHULTI switch. It is a software >>> switch doing L2 forwarding. >>> >>> This first version implements the minimum needed to get the device working. >>> It also implements, via switchdev and rtnetlink, bridge forwarding offload, >>> including FDB static entries, FDB learning and FDB ageing. >> >> How is this different from net/bridge? >> How is this different from openvswitch? > > The difference is that it this tries to allow userspace crap to mirror > setting user does for bridge/ovs. Basically this looks to me like an > attempt to enable userspace SDKs and such. > It is software switch, allowed by the switchdev model (see Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt), same design as mellanox spectrum.
What's wrong with that?
