[ovs-dev] [patch net-next v2 8/9] switchdev: introduce Netlink API

Or Gerlitz gerlitz.or at gmail.com
Mon Oct 6 08:47:51 UTC 2014


On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf at suug.ch> wrote:
> On 09/26/14 at 11:03pm, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>> Yep, this can serve us for the architecture discussion @ LPC. Re the
>> SRIOV case, you referred to the case where guest VF traffic goes
>> through HW (say) VXLAN encap/decap -- just to make sure, we need also
>> to support the simpler case, where guest traffic just goes through
>> vlan tag/strip.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> The SRIOV case is only mentioned here in the "Compatibility with
>> existing FDB ioctls for SR-IOV" bullet, so I'm a bit nervous... we
>> need to have it clear in the agenda.
>
> I think the offload API discussion should consider the SR-iOV case
> but we might need to discuss additional details outside of that
> BoF to ensure that the BoF can keep focus on the offload API itself.
> That said, I suggest we define the specific agenda once we know that
> the BoF has been accepted and 2 hours have been allocated ;-)
>
>> Also, this BoF needs to be double-len, two hours, can you act to
>> get that done?
>
> This has already been requested.

Is this confirmed?



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