From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Ouyang, Changchun" <changchun.ouyang@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 06/10] virtio: use software vlan stripping
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:24:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140826092420.57e95493@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F52918179C57134FAEC9EA62FA2F96251183B285@shsmsx102.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 08:37:11 +0000
"Ouyang, Changchun" <changchun.ouyang@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> Would you please describe the use scenario for the front end rx vlan strip and tx vlan insertion?
> In our current implementation, backend will strip vlan tag for RX, and insert vlan tag for TX.
>
> Thanks
> Changchun
First, we don't have to do software VLAN strip on our backend if we do this.
And this way we can always use VLAN insert on transmit. Otherwise you have to
introduce special case because there is no DPDK API to determine if device does or does not
do VLAN handling.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-26 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-26 2:07 [dpdk-dev] [RFC 00/10] virtio patches Stephen Hemminger
2014-08-26 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 01/10] virtio: rearrange resource initialization Stephen Hemminger
2014-08-26 7:14 ` Ouyang, Changchun
2014-08-26 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 02/10] virtio: use weak barriers Stephen Hemminger
2014-08-26 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 03/10] virtio: allow starting with link down Stephen Hemminger
2014-08-26 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 04/10] virtio: add support for Link State interrupt Stephen Hemminger
2014-08-26 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 05/10] ether: add soft vlan encap/decap functions Stephen Hemminger
2014-08-26 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 06/10] virtio: use software vlan stripping Stephen Hemminger
2014-08-26 8:37 ` Ouyang, Changchun
2014-08-26 16:24 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2014-08-27 5:42 ` Ouyang, Changchun
2014-08-27 18:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-08-26 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 07/10] virtio: remove unnecessary adapter structure Stephen Hemminger
2014-08-26 6:43 ` Ouyang, Changchun
2014-08-26 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 08/10] virtio: remove redundant vq_alignment Stephen Hemminger
2014-08-26 8:41 ` Ouyang, Changchun
2014-08-26 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 09/10] virtio: fix how states are handled during initialization Stephen Hemminger
2014-08-26 2:07 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 10/10] virtio: add support for promiscious and multicast Stephen Hemminger
2014-08-26 6:55 ` Ouyang, Changchun
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