On 1/10/2013 11:46 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:53:07PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com writes:
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:45:39PM +0800, ak...@redhat.com wrote:
From: Amos Kong ak...@redhat.com
Currenly mac is programmed byte by
On 6/25/2012 3:07 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 05:16:48PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
Hello All:
This series is an update version of multiqueue virtio-net driver based on
Krishna Kumar's work to let virtio-net use multiple rx/tx queues to do the
packets reception and
On 3/25/2012 6:09 AM, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
On 3/18/12 11:52 PM, John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com wrote:
This adds a generic dump routine drivers can call. It
should be sufficient to handle any bridging model that
uses the unicast address list. This should be most SR-IOV
comments/feedback appreciated!
---
John Fastabend (5):
ixgbe: allow RAR table to be updated in promisc mode
ixgbe: enable FDB netdevice ops
net: add fdb generic dump routine
net: addr_list: add exclusive dev_uc_add
net: add generic PF_BRIDGE:RTM_XXX FDB hooks
lists.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com
---
include/linux/netdevice.h |1 +
net/core/dev_addr_lists.c | 19 +++
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 4208901
This adds a generic dump routine drivers can call. It
should be sufficient to handle any bridging model that
uses the unicast address list. This should be most SR-IOV
enabled NICs.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com
---
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 56
Enable FDB ops on ixgbe when in SR-IOV mode.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 59 +
1 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
This allows RAR table updates while in promiscuous. With
SR-IOV enabled it is valuable to allow the RAR table to
be updated even when in promisc mode to configure forwarding
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 21
Hemminger and Ben Hutchings for
valuable feedback, suggestions, and review.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com
---
include/linux/neighbour.h |3 +
include/linux/netdevice.h | 26
include/linux/rtnetlink.h |4 +
net/bridge/br_device.c|3 +
net/bridge
On 3/19/2012 3:55 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:38:08 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller da...@davemloft.net wrote:
From: John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:51:45 -0700
This series is a follow up to this thread:
http://www.spinics.net/lists
On 3/19/2012 5:35 PM, David Miller wrote:
From: John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:27:00 -0700
Dave, its probably fine to push this to 3.5 then.
Fair enough.
Stephen, please let me know if you see any issues though
because without these we have no way
is appreciated!
---
John Fastabend (4):
ixgbe: enable FDB netdevice ops
net: add fdb generic dump routine
net: addr_list: add exclusive dev_uc_add
net: add generic PF_BRIDGE:RTM_XXX FDB hooks
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 59
include/linux/neighbour.h
lists.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com
---
include/linux/netdevice.h |1 +
net/core/dev_addr_lists.c | 19 +++
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 3963992
This adds a generic dump routine drivers can call. It
should be sufficient to handle any bridging model that
uses the unicast address list. This should be most SR-IOV
enabled NICs.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com
---
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 56
Enable FDB ops on ixgbe when in SR-IOV mode.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 59 +
1 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
opinion that the merit of this patch is now embedded and SW
bridges can both be modeled correctly in user space using very nearly
the same message passing.
[1] 'br' tool was published as an RFC here and will be renamed 'bridge'
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/117664/
Signed-off-by: John
On 3/9/2012 7:48 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
Enable FDB ops on ixgbe when in SR-IOV mode.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com
Will all this break anything on the vf client? What if the vf is running
a bridge.
No shouldn't break anything.
Actually, implementing
On 3/5/2012 8:53 AM, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 08:40:06PM -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
Also if there are embedded switches with learning capabilities they
might want to trigger events to user space. In this case having
a protocol type makes user space a bit easier
On 3/1/2012 6:14 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:25:56AM -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
Agreed. I think adding some ndo_ops for bridging offloads here would
work. For example the DSA infrastructure and/or macvlan devices might
need this. Along the lines of extending
On 3/1/2012 5:36 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 10:19 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
I want to see a unified API so that user space control applications (RSTP,
TRILL?)
can use one set of netlink calls for both software bridge and hardware
offloaded
bridges. Does
On 2/29/2012 5:56 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 20:40 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
OK back to this. The last piece is where to put these messages...
we could take PF_ROUTE:RTM_*NEIGH
PF_ROUTE:RTM_NEWNEIGH - Add a new FDB entry to an offloaded
On 2/29/2012 9:52 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:25:56 -0800
John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com wrote:
On 2/29/2012 5:56 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 20:40 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
OK back to this. The last piece is where to put
On 2/18/2012 4:41 AM, jamal wrote:
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 09:10 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
Yes I agree that is the goal.
One last comment:
With synchronization there are other challenges when the entry in the
hardware conflicts with the entry in software when you intend the
behavior
On 2/28/2012 8:40 PM, John Fastabend wrote:
On 2/18/2012 4:41 AM, jamal wrote:
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 09:10 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
Yes I agree that is the goal.
One last comment:
With synchronization there are other challenges when the entry in the
hardware conflicts with the entry
On 2/17/2012 6:28 AM, jamal wrote:
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 17:26 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
On 2/15/2012 6:10 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 10:57 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
Roopa was likely on the right track here,
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/123064/
Doesnt
On 2/15/2012 6:10 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 10:57 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
Roopa was likely on the right track here,
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/123064/
Doesnt seem related to the bridging stuff - the modeling looks
reasonable however.
The operations
On 2/14/2012 5:18 AM, jamal wrote:
On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 07:13 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
The use case here is multiple VFs but the same solution should work with
multiple PFs as well. FDB controls should be independent of how the ports
are exposed VFs, PFs, VMDQ/queue pairs, macvlan, etc
On 2/14/2012 11:05 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:57:04 -0800
John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com wrote:
On 2/14/2012 5:18 AM, jamal wrote:
On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 07:13 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
The use case here is multiple VFs but the same solution should
ACLs, IPv4 forwarding etc. And the kernel bloats.
I am always bigoted to move all policy control to user space instead of
bloating in the kernel.
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 20:14 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
Hi Jamal,
The user space app in this case would listen for FDB updates to the SW
On 2/8/2012 8:36 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:22:06 -0800
John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com wrote:
Propagate software FDB table into hardware uc, mc lists when
the NETIF_F_HW_FDB is set.
This resolves the case below where an embedded switch is used
On 2/9/2012 9:40 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:36:47 -0800
John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com wrote:
But the device features makes it easy for user space to learn that the device
supports this sort of offload. Now if all SR-IOV devices support
On 2/9/2012 10:14 AM, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 19:22 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
Propagate software FDB table into hardware uc, mc lists when
the NETIF_F_HW_FDB is set.
This resolves the case below where an embedded switch is used
in hardware to do inter-VF or VF-PF
On 2/9/2012 4:39 PM, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 12:30 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
On 2/9/2012 10:14 AM, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 19:22 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
Propagate software FDB table into hardware uc, mc lists when
the NETIF_F_HW_FDB is set
On 2/9/2012 1:11 PM, jamal wrote:
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 09:52 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
By netlink_notifier do you mean adding a notifier_block and using
atomic_notifier_call_chain()
probably in rtnl_notify()? Then drivers could register with the notifier
chain
On 2/9/2012 6:14 PM, John Fastabend wrote:
On 2/9/2012 1:11 PM, jamal wrote:
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 09:52 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
By netlink_notifier do you mean adding a notifier_block and using
atomic_notifier_call_chain()
probably in rtnl_notify()? Then drivers could register
On 2/5/2012 8:54 AM, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
On 2/3/12 7:32 AM, Roopa Prabhu ropra...@cisco.com wrote:
On 2/2/12 10:58 AM, John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com wrote:
snip..
Are you sure they will be good to have? I'm not so sure you want to be
able to manipulate the uc and mc
://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2011/11/08/135
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com
---
include/linux/netdev_features.h |2 ++
net/bridge/br_fdb.c | 34 ++
2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux
-by: John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 35 +
1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index
On 2/1/2012 11:24 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 08:30:24AM -0800, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
On 11/17/11 4:15 PM, Ben Hutchings bhutchi...@solarflare.com wrote:
Sorry to come to this rather late.
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 23:55 -0800, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
[...]
v2 - v3
-
On 2/2/2012 12:50 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 12:46:57AM -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
On 2/1/2012 11:24 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 08:30:24AM -0800, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
On 11/17/11 4:15 PM, Ben Hutchings bhutchi...@solarflare.com wrote
On 2/2/2012 10:07 AM, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
On 2/2/12 12:46 AM, John Fastabend john.r.fastab...@intel.com wrote:
On 2/1/2012 11:24 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 08:30:24AM -0800, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
On 11/17/11 4:15 PM, Ben Hutchings bhutchi...@solarflare.com
On 2/2/2012 12:38 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 00:46 -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
[...]
OK finally got to read through this. And its not clear to me why we need
these per VF/PF filter netdevice ops and netlink extensions if we can
get the stacking correct. (Adding filters
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