Re: [ovs-dev] [GIT PULL v2] Open vSwitch

2011-11-27 Thread jamal
On Sun, 2011-11-27 at 20:34 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 08:19:39AM -0500, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: > There's a bunch of features that the hardware supports that have no > analog in the Linux networking stack (e.g. port mirroring a non-CPU > port to another non-CPU por

Re: [ovs-dev] [GIT PULL v2] Open vSwitch

2011-11-27 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 08:19:39AM -0500, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: > > I assume you mean something like setup_tc() which we have > > today to call into into the driver at qdisc create time. This > > happens with the RTNL held. I don't see any reason not to also > > call into the hardware on qdisc_c

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.

2011-11-27 Thread jamal
On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 23:17 -0800, Justin Pettit wrote: > > You're right--calling tc directly through system() is kind of ugly. > That code was written a *long* time ago when we wanted a quick QoS story. > As you mentioned, we use netlink to configure traffic shaping, so we have > all the pieces