Re: Hardware capabilities and bonding offload

2015-11-18 Thread Andrew Lunn
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 03:29:23PM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 03:05:12PM CET, and...@lunn.ch wrote: > >> To be honest though this is more of an argument in theory versus > >> some existing management agent I know of today. If you need to do > >> bonding type X in your network a

Re: Hardware capabilities and bonding offload

2015-11-18 Thread Jiri Pirko
Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 03:05:12PM CET, and...@lunn.ch wrote: >> To be honest though this is more of an argument in theory versus >> some existing management agent I know of today. If you need to do >> bonding type X in your network and the particular switch doesn't support >> it I'm not even sure wha

Re: Hardware capabilities and bonding offload

2015-11-18 Thread Andrew Lunn
> To be honest though this is more of an argument in theory versus > some existing management agent I know of today. If you need to do > bonding type X in your network and the particular switch doesn't support > it I'm not even sure what the mgmt layer is going to do. Maybe just > put the switch of

Re: Hardware capabilities and bonding offload

2015-11-17 Thread John Fastabend
On 15-11-17 02:03 PM, Simon Horman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 08:10:27AM -0800, John Fastabend wrote: >> On 15-11-16 07:30 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >>> Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:29:12AM CET, pjonn...@broadcom.com wrote: Hello, I am looking to offload bond interfaces to hardware for

Re: Hardware capabilities and bonding offload

2015-11-17 Thread Simon Horman
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 08:10:27AM -0800, John Fastabend wrote: > On 15-11-16 07:30 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: > > Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:29:12AM CET, pjonn...@broadcom.com wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am looking to offload bond interfaces to hardware for forwarding. Linux > >> allows for configuri

Re: Hardware capabilities and bonding offload

2015-11-16 Thread John Fastabend
On 15-11-16 07:30 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:29:12AM CET, pjonn...@broadcom.com wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am looking to offload bond interfaces to hardware for forwarding. Linux >> allows for configuring >> a variety of parameters on bonds or slave interfaces. Not all >> co

Re: Hardware capabilities and bonding offload

2015-11-16 Thread Jiri Pirko
Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:29:12AM CET, pjonn...@broadcom.com wrote: >Hello, > >I am looking to offload bond interfaces to hardware for forwarding. Linux >allows for configuring >a variety of parameters on bonds or slave interfaces. Not all configurations >can be offloaded to >hardware. For exa

Hardware capabilities and bonding offload

2015-11-16 Thread Premkumar Jonnala
Hello, I am looking to offload bond interfaces to hardware for forwarding. Linux allows for configuring a variety of parameters on bonds or slave interfaces. Not all configurations can be offloaded to hardware. For example, certain hardware cannot support bonds with mode of adaptive load b