On 11/25/14 at 12:08pm, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:

On 11/25/14 11:49, Jiri Pirko wrote:

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What does it do? "L3 switching"?

Absolutely not - that is too easy;-> Why not just a mellanox
chip for that? (Testing if Aviad is awake). But flows and associated
constructs apply.

It would definitely help if you could expose some more details on the
"some network processor" you have. We're all very eager ;-)

I think this interface is usable for example to offload to user space
ala DPDK and friends just as it would be for ASICs or standard NIC
offload (which we already have with fdb offload).
I dont know what a good name is - but switch looks incorrect.

I'm with Jiri but I agree it's not a perfect fit. I doubt there is but
if you can come up with something that fits better I'm open to it.

I considered "dataplane" or "dp" for a bit but it's quite generic as
well.