From: nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: horatiu.vultur@microchip.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, jakub.kicinski@netronome.com,
vivien.didelot@gmail.com, andrew@lunn.ch,
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Subject: Re: [RFC net-next Patch 0/3] net: bridge: mrp: Add support for Media Redundancy Protocol(MRP)
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 22:03:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CD4F75F-C462-4CF2-B31A-C2E023D3F065@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200110.112736.1849382588448237535.davem@davemloft.net>
On 10 January 2020 21:27:36 EET, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
>Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:13:36 +0200
>
>> I agree with Stephen here, IMO you have to take note of how STP has
>progressed
>> and that bringing it in the kernel was a mistake, these days mstpd
>has an active
>> community and much better support which is being extended. This looks
>best implemented
>> in user-space in my opinion with minimal kernel changes to support
>it. You could simply
>> open a packet socket with a filter and work through that, you don't
>need new netlink
>> sockets. I'm not familiar with the protocol so can't really be the
>judge of that, if
>> you present a good argument for needing a new netlink socket for
>these packets - then
>> sure, ok.
>
>With a userland implementation, what approach do you suggest for
>DSA/switchdev offload
>of this stuff?
Good question, there was no mention of that initially, or I missed it at least.
There aren't many details about what/how will be offloaded right now.
We need more information about what will be offloaded and how it will fit.
l
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-10 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-09 15:06 [RFC net-next Patch 0/3] net: bridge: mrp: Add support for Media Redundancy Protocol(MRP) Horatiu Vultur
2020-01-09 15:06 ` [RFC net-next Patch 1/3] net: bridge: mrp: Add support for Media Redundancy Protocol Horatiu Vultur
2020-01-09 15:06 ` [RFC net-next Patch 2/3] net: bridge: mrp: Integrate MRP into the bridge Horatiu Vultur
2020-01-09 15:06 ` [RFC net-next Patch 3/3] net: bridge: mrp: Add netlink support to configure MRP Horatiu Vultur
2020-01-09 16:19 ` [RFC net-next Patch 0/3] net: bridge: mrp: Add support for Media Redundancy Protocol(MRP) Stephen Hemminger
2020-01-09 17:41 ` [Bridge] " Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
2020-01-10 9:02 ` Horatiu Vultur
2020-01-10 15:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-01-10 14:13 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2020-01-10 15:38 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2020-01-10 16:04 ` Horatiu Vultur
2020-01-10 16:21 ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-01-10 16:48 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-01-10 17:25 ` Horatiu Vultur
2020-01-10 17:56 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-01-10 20:12 ` Horatiu Vultur
2020-01-10 20:33 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-01-10 19:27 ` David Miller
2020-01-10 20:03 ` nikolay [this message]
2020-01-10 20:24 ` Horatiu Vultur
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