netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v3 2/2] ixgbe: enable l2 forwarding acceleration for macvlans

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Message-ID: <20131106135920.GA6357@neilslaptop.think-freely.org>
Date:	Wed, 6 Nov 2013 08:59:20 -0500
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
Cc:	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com, andy@...yhouse.net,
	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, vyasevich@...il.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3 2/2] ixgbe: enable l2 forwarding acceleration
 for macvlans

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:30:17PM -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
> Now that l2 acceleration ops are in place from the prior patch,
> enable ixgbe to take advantage of these operations.  Allow it to
> allocate queues for a macvlan so that when we transmit a frame,
> we can do the switching in hardware inside the ixgbe card, rather
> than in software.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
> CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> ---
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>

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