Re: [ovs-dev] [patch net-next v2 8/9] switchdev: introduce Netlink API

2014-09-20 Thread Scott Feldman
On Sep 20, 2014, at 5:51 AM, Roopa Prabhu wrote: > On 9/20/14, 1:10 AM, Scott Feldman wrote: >> On Sep 19, 2014, at 8:41 PM, Roopa Prabhu >> wrote: >> >> >>> On 9/19/14, 8:49 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >>> >>>> Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 05:25

Re: [ovs-dev] [patch net-next v2 8/9] switchdev: introduce Netlink API

2014-09-20 Thread Scott Feldman
On Sep 19, 2014, at 8:41 PM, Roopa Prabhu wrote: > On 9/19/14, 8:49 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 05:25:48PM CEST, j...@mojatatu.com wrote: >>> On 09/19/14 09:49, Jiri Pirko wrote: This patch exposes switchdev API using generic Netlink. Example userspace utility is here

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

2014-09-05 Thread Scott Feldman
On Sep 4, 2014, at 9:08 PM, Simon Horman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 09:30:45AM -0700, Scott Feldman wrote: >> >> On Sep 4, 2014, at 2:04 AM, Simon Horman wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>> In relation to ports and

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

2014-09-04 Thread Scott Feldman
On Sep 4, 2014, at 2:04 AM, Simon Horman wrote: > > > [snip] > > In relation to ports and datapaths it seems to me that the API that > has been developed accommodates a model where a port may belong to a > switch device; that this topology is fixed before any API calls are made > and that all

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

2014-08-26 Thread Scott Feldman
On Aug 26, 2014, at 6:50 AM, Roopa Prabhu wrote: > On 8/25/14, 3:50 PM, Thomas Graf wrote: >> On 08/25/14 at 12:15pm, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: >>> On 08/25/14 10:17, Thomas Graf wrote: On 08/25/14 at 09:53am, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: fdb_add() *is* flow based. At least in my understandin

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

2014-08-24 Thread Scott Feldman
On Aug 24, 2014, at 8:15 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: > On 08/24/14 07:12, Thomas Graf wrote: >> On 08/23/14 at 09:53pm, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: > >> >> I get what you are saying but I don't see that to be the case here. I >> don't see how this series proposes the OVS case as *the* interface. >

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

2014-08-22 Thread Scott Feldman
On Aug 22, 2014, at 12:14 PM, John Fastabend wrote: > On 08/22/2014 05:56 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> 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 poss

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

2014-08-22 Thread Scott Feldman
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. > > we should add a description here on the strategy being used. > > If I read