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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 17:38:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5720DCE1.8060803@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160427151336.GB1962@nanopsycho.orion>

Le 27/04/2016 17:14, Jiri Pirko a écrit :
> Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:56:15AM CEST, fw@strlen.de wrote:
>> Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> wrote:
>>> This patch adds the support of the 6WIND SHULTI switch. It is a software
>>> switch doing L2 forwarding.
>>>
>>> This first version implements the minimum needed to get the device working.
>>> It also implements, via switchdev and rtnetlink, bridge forwarding offload,
>>> including FDB static entries, FDB learning and FDB ageing.
>>
>> How is this different from net/bridge?
>> How is this different from openvswitch?
> 
> The difference is that it this tries to allow userspace crap to mirror
> setting user does for bridge/ovs. Basically this looks to me like an
> attempt to enable userspace SDKs and such.
> 
It is software switch, allowed by the switchdev model (see
Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt), same design as mellanox spectrum.

What's wrong with that?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-27 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-27  9:37 [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: add 6WIND SHULTI support Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-27  9:50 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-04-27  9:56 ` Florian Westphal
2016-04-27 15:14   ` Jiri Pirko
2016-04-27 15:38     ` Nicolas Dichtel [this message]
2016-04-27 15:54       ` Jiri Pirko
2016-04-27 16:55     ` David Miller
2016-04-27 17:07       ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-04-28 12:00         ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-28 11:59       ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-28 14:05         ` Or Gerlitz
2016-04-28 15:54         ` David Miller
2016-04-29  8:48           ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-05-01 15:27             ` Jiri Pirko
2016-05-01 19:53           ` Jiri Pirko
2016-05-01 15:24         ` Jiri Pirko
2016-04-27 16:34 ` David Miller

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