Hello, I am looking to offload bond interfaces to hardware for forwarding. Linux allows for configuring a variety of parameters on bonds or slave interfaces. Not all configurations can be offloaded to hardware. For example, certain hardware cannot support bonds with mode of adaptive load balancing.
When such a configuration is provided by user, we have two options at hand (for platforms supporting hardware offloads): 1. Reject the configuration. 2. Handle the bond interface in software. In a scenario where this bond interface is part of a bridge interface, for simplicity purpose, all other interfaces in the bridge need to be handled in software - which results in a very low packet processing performance. I'm writing to gather feedback on the approach to take, including any other suggestions. We have discussed this briefly in our weekly netdev meeting, and I received votes for option #1. Thanks Prem -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
