Re: [RFC net-next Patch v2 4/4] net: bridge: mrp: switchdev: Add HW offload

[Horatiu Vultur]

The 01/14/2020 00:30, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 
> Hi Horatiu
> 
> It has been said a few times what the basic state machine should be in
> user space. A pure software solution can use raw sockets to send and
> receive MRP_Test test frames. When considering hardware acceleration,
> the switchdev API you have proposed here seems quite simple. It should
> not be too hard to map it to a set of netlink messages from userspace.

Yes and we will try to go with this approach, to have a user space
application that contains the state machines and then in the kernel to
extend the netlink messages to map to the switchdev API.
So we will create a new RFC once we will have the user space and the
definition of the netlink messages.

> 
> Yet your argument for kernel, not user space, is you are worried about
> the parameters which need to be passed to the hardware offload engine.
> In order to win the argument for a kernel solution, we are going to
> need a better idea what you think this problem is. The MRP_Test is TLV
> based. Are there other things which could be in this message? Is that
> what you are worried about?

> 
> Thanks
>      Andrew

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/Horatiu