netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 5/6] i40e: Add TX and RX support in switchdev mode.

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Message-ID: <586D7B4E.2010308@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 04 Jan 2017 14:46:38 -0800
From:   "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>
To:     Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
CC:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
        John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
        Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@...el.com>,
        jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 5/6] i40e: Add TX and RX support in switchdev
 mode.



On 1/3/2017 3:03 PM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Samudrala, Sridhar
> <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com> wrote:
>> On 12/30/2016 7:31 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>>> Are you exposing switchdev ops for the representators? didn't see that
>>> or maybe it's in the 4th patch which didn't make it to the list?
>> Not at this time. In the future patches when we offload fdb/vlan
>> functionality, we could use switchdev ops.
> but wait, this is the switchdev mode... even before doing any
> offloading, you want (need) your representor netdevices to have the
> same HW ID marking they are all ports of the same ASIC, this you can
> do with the switchdev parent ID attribute.
OK. I will add switchdev_port_attr_get() with PORT_PARENT_ID support in v3.

Thanks
Sridhar