Re: [ovs-dev] [patch net-next RFC 10/12] openvswitch: add support for datapath hardware offload

2014-08-23 Thread Jamal Hadi Salim
On 08/22/14 18:53, Scott Feldman wrote: Ok, Scott - now i have looked at the patches on the plane and i am still not convinced ;-> The intent is to use openvswitch.ko’s struct sw_flow to program hardware via the ndo_swdev_flow_* ops, but otherwise be independent of OVS. So the upper layer of

Re: [ovs-dev] [patch net-next RFC 10/12] openvswitch: add support for datapath hardware offload

2014-08-23 Thread John Fastabend
On 08/23/2014 07:51 AM, Thomas Graf wrote: On 08/23/14 at 11:24am, Jiri Pirko wrote: Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:53:34AM CEST, sfel...@cumulusnetworks.com wrote: On Aug 22, 2014, at 12:39 PM, John Fastabend wrote: - this requires OVS to be loaded to work. If all I want is direct access to the

Re: [ovs-dev] [patch net-next RFC 10/12] openvswitch: add support for datapath hardware offload

2014-08-23 Thread Thomas Graf
On 08/23/14 at 11:24am, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:53:34AM CEST, sfel...@cumulusnetworks.com wrote: > > > >On Aug 22, 2014, at 12:39 PM, John Fastabend > >wrote: > >> - this requires OVS to be loaded to work. If all I want is > >> direct access to the hardware flow tables requi

Re: [ovs-dev] [patch net-next RFC 12/12] rocker: introduce rocker switch driver

2014-08-23 Thread Thomas Graf
On 08/21/14 at 06:19pm, Jiri Pirko wrote: > This patch introduces the first driver to benefit from the switchdev > infrastructure and to implement newly introduced switch ndos. This is a > driver for emulated switch chip implemented in qemu: > https://github.com/sfeldma/qemu-rocker/ The design loo

Re: [ovs-dev] [patch net-next RFC 07/12] dsa: implement ndo_swdev_get_id

2014-08-23 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jiri Pirko writes: > Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 06:56:13PM CEST, f.faine...@gmail.com wrote: >>2014-08-21 9:19 GMT-07:00 Jiri Pirko : >>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko >>> --- >>> net/dsa/Kconfig | 2 +- >>> net/dsa/slave.c | 16 >>> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >>>

Re: [ovs-dev] [patch net-next RFC 10/12] openvswitch: add support for datapath hardware offload

2014-08-23 Thread Jiri Pirko
Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:53:34AM CEST, sfel...@cumulusnetworks.com wrote: > >On Aug 22, 2014, at 12:39 PM, John Fastabend wrote: > >> On 08/21/2014 09:19 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >>> Benefit from the possibility to work with flows in switch devices and >>> use the swdev api to offload flow datapath. >

Re: [ovs-dev] [patch net-next RFC 03/12] net: introduce generic switch devices support

2014-08-23 Thread Jiri Pirko
Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 03:02:10AM CEST, f.faine...@gmail.com wrote: >2014-08-22 5:56 GMT-07:00 Jiri Pirko : >> Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 02:42:04PM CEST, j...@mojatatu.com wrote: >>>On 08/21/14 13:05, Florian Fainelli wrote: 2014-08-21 9:18 GMT-07:00 Jiri Pirko : >The goal of this is to provide a