Re: [RFC net-next 3/9] net: hns3: Add "port vlan table" information query function
From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Tue Dec 04 2018 - 06:32:41 EST
> > > Adding debugfs files for basic switch concepts like MAC and VLAN tables
> > > seems like a bit of a stretch to me. I wonder what others think.
> >
> > Agreed.
>
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> I was wondering how other vendors are solving this? One way I could
> understand is to use "Switchdev" framework which in turn will expose
> entries to the kernel using the switch driver. In our NIC we don't
> have a proper switch and it cannot learn/age entries.
Your hardware is there to accelerate what linux can do in software.
How do we manage the software version of this feature?
> Also, on-SoC NIC contains other tables which might not have any standard
> user-space interface at all. What are your suggestions regarding that?
How are these tables map to software features the Linux stack
implements?
Andrew