netdev - Re: [PATCH] bonding: Offloading bonds to hardware

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Message-ID: <20151114094047.GA2218@nanopsycho.orion>
Date:	Sat, 14 Nov 2015 10:40:47 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:	Premkumar Jonnala <pjonnala@...adcom.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: Offloading bonds to hardware

Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 06:08:01PM CET, andrew@...n.ch wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 04:02:18PM +0000, Premkumar Jonnala wrote:
>> Packet forwarding to/from bond interfaces is done in software.
>> 
>> This patch enables certain platforms to bridge traffic to/from
>> bond interfaces in hardware.  Notifications are sent out when 
>> the "active" slave set for a bond interface is updated in 
>> software.  Platforms use the notifications to program the 
>> hardware accordingly.  The changes have been verified to work 
>> with configured and 802.3ad bond interfaces.
>
>Hi Premkumar
>
>Nice to see this. Do you also have patches for a switch using these
>notification? Are you targeting Starfighter 2?

I fear they are targeting some closed-source crap :/
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