netdev - Re: [ovs-dev] OVS Offload Decision Proposal

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Message-ID: <54F8572B.4020309@mojatatu.com>
Date:	Thu, 05 Mar 2015 08:16:27 -0500
From:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	therbert@...gle.com, davidch@...adcom.com,
	simon.horman@...ronome.com, dev@...nvswitch.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, pablo@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] OVS Offload Decision Proposal

On 03/05/15 07:37, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> On 03/05/15 02:39, John Fastabend wrote:

> Would kernel boot/module options passed to the driver not suffice?
> That implies a central authority that decides what these table size
> slicing looks like.
>
>> Once the reservation of resources occurs we wouldn't let user space
>> arbitrarily write to any table but only tables that have been
>> explicitly reserved for user space to write to.

Seems i misread what you are saying.
I thought you wanted to just create the tables from user space
directly; however, rereading the above:
you are actually  asking *to write* to these tables directly from user
space ;->

cheers,
jamal
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