On 21 April 2017 at 18:45, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 11:40:54AM +0200, Matthias May wrote: >> When using openvswitch in combination with a hardware switch attached via dsa >> it may be desirable to prevent frames from being looped back to interfaces >> which reside on the same switch and are already processed by the >> switching fabric in hardware. >> This patch series achieves this by introducing a new parameter port_group to >> be used by the normal action. >> When the port_group is not set explicitly, it defaults to the ofp number. >> Ports which are in the same group will not forward a frame between each >> other. > > Thank you for proposing (and implementing) a new feature! It's always > great to see new people and companies coming into the Open vSwitch > development community. I'll take a more detailed look at each patch, > but I have a few general questions here too. > > What's dsa?
For what it's worth, DSA support in the Linux code has recently been resurrected, there was a netdev 2.1 talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK5ZmQOYSpM _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
