Re: [patch net-next 00/14] rocker: add support for multiple worlds

2015-10-06 Thread John Fastabend
[...] >> >> Its related in that if you expose your device model you do not need >> opaque strings to do wholesale reconfiguration of the device. Instead >> if the parts of the device that are configurable are exposed to the >> user they can build the "world" they want. > > The disconnect here, I

Re: [patch net-next 00/14] rocker: add support for multiple worlds

2015-10-05 Thread John Fastabend
[...] >> I think your underestimating the flexibility of hardware. And >> completely missing the hardware that is based on FPGAs and/or cell >> architectures. This hardware is available today and could support >> topology changes like this. But even less exotic hardware can/will >> support parser

Re: [patch net-next 00/14] rocker: add support for multiple worlds

2015-10-05 Thread Jiri Pirko
Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:58:06PM CEST, john.fastab...@gmail.com wrote: >On 15-10-05 09:30 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:41:38PM CEST, john.fastab...@gmail.com wrote: >>> On 15-10-04 02:25 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote: From: Jiri Pirko This patchset

Re: [patch net-next 00/14] rocker: add support for multiple worlds

2015-10-05 Thread Scott Feldman
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:58 AM, John Fastabend wrote: > On 15-10-05 09:30 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:41:38PM CEST, john.fastab...@gmail.com wrote: >>> On 15-10-04 02:25 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote: From: Jiri Pirko This

Re: [patch net-next 00/14] rocker: add support for multiple worlds

2015-10-05 Thread John Fastabend
On 15-10-05 09:30 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:41:38PM CEST, john.fastab...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 15-10-04 02:25 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >>> From: Jiri Pirko >>> >>> This patchset allows new rocker worlds to be easily added in future (like >>> eBPF >>> based

Re: [patch net-next 00/14] rocker: add support for multiple worlds

2015-10-05 Thread Jiri Pirko
Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:41:38PM CEST, john.fastab...@gmail.com wrote: >On 15-10-04 02:25 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> From: Jiri Pirko >> >> This patchset allows new rocker worlds to be easily added in future (like >> eBPF >> based one I have been working on). The main part of

[patch net-next 00/14] rocker: add support for multiple worlds

2015-10-04 Thread Jiri Pirko
From: Jiri Pirko This patchset allows new rocker worlds to be easily added in future (like eBPF based one I have been working on). The main part of the patchset is the OF-DPA carve-out. It resuts in OF-DPA specific file. Clean cut. The user is able to change rocker port