[Intel-wired-lan] [net-next PATCH v2 5/6] i40e: Add TX and RX support in switchdev mode.

Or Gerlitz gerlitz.or at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 12:08:54 UTC 2017


On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:07 PM, Sridhar Samudrala
<sridhar.samudrala at intel.com> wrote:
> A host based switching entity like a linux bridge or OVS redirects these frames
> to the right VFs via VFPR netdevs. Any frames sent via VFPR netdevs are sent as
> directed transmits to the corresponding VFs. To enable directed transmit, skb
> metadata dst is used to pass the VF id and the frame is requeued to call the PFs
> transmit routine.

Jakub/John, patch #4 which didn't appear in the list had a long discussion [1]
ending  with "lets talk on it @ netdev", did we?

Or.

[1] http://marc.info/?t=147457252900002&r=1&w=2


More information about the Intel-wired-lan mailing list