From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC v2] switchdev: bridge: drop hardware forwarded packets Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 20:33:27 -0700 Message-ID: <550F8987.5070600@roeck-us.net> References: <1426870714-3225-1-git-send-email-roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> <20150320.163655.474336751434677390.davem@davemloft.net> <550C92F3.50302@cumulusnetworks.com> <20150320220946.GB31769@lunn.ch> <20150323002215.GA6074@roeck-us.net> <550F6D7D.7030403@gmail.com> <550F8102.7040701@roeck-us.net> <550F8600.2020300@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Lunn , roopa , David Miller , sfeldma@gmail.com, jiri@resnulli.us, ronen.arad@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: John Fastabend Return-path: Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:57206 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751935AbbCWDda (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Mar 2015 23:33:30 -0400 Received: from mailnull by bh-25.webhostbox.net with sa-checked (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1YZt7J-001cZy-LP for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 03:33:30 +0000 In-Reply-To: <550F8600.2020300@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/22/2015 08:18 PM, John Fastabend wrote: [ ... ] > > Sorry I probably wasn't being clear. I'm just saying we don't need to > have the driver tell us if the packet has been forwarded. All we have > to do in software is the switch check and assume all packets sent to us > from the driver have already been handled by the hardware. Roopa is > working on this I believe. > Ah, ok. Yes, you are correct. Sorry, I missed that. Thanks, Guenter