Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dsa: bcm_sf2: CFP support

2017-01-27 Thread Florian Fainelli
Hi Chris, On 01/27/2017 01:24 PM, Chris Healy wrote: > Hi Florian, > > In saying the below, I may just be showing my naivety but here goes: > > If I understand this correctly, what you are using is similar to the > TCAM hardware present in the newer Marvell switches. I think Pablo is > doing so

Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dsa: bcm_sf2: CFP support

2017-01-27 Thread Chris Healy
Hi Florian, In saying the below, I may just be showing my naivety but here goes: If I understand this correctly, what you are using is similar to the TCAM hardware present in the newer Marvell switches. I think Pablo is doing some work with nftables and HW offload using TCAM HW. Is there overla

[PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dsa: bcm_sf2: CFP support

2017-01-27 Thread Florian Fainelli
Hi all, This patch series adds support for the Broadcom Compact Field Processor (CFP) which is a classification and matching engine built into most Broadcom switches. We support that using ethtool::rxnfc because it allows all known uses cases from the users I support to work, and more importantly