On 08/18/2016 04:35 AM, Tan, Jianfeng wrote: > Hi Maxime, > > On 8/17/2016 7:18 PM, Maxime Coquelin wrote: >> Hi Jianfeng, >> >> On 08/17/2016 04:33 AM, Tan, Jianfeng wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Please review below proposal of Pankaj and myself after an offline >>> discussion. (Pankaj, please correct me if I'm going somewhere wrong). >>> >>> a. Remove HW dependent option, --strip-vlan, because different kinds of >>> NICs behave differently. It's a bug fix. >>> b. Abstract switching logic into a framework, so that we can develop >>> different kinds of switching logics. In this phase, we will have two >>> switching logics: (1) a simple software-based mac learning switching; >>> (2) VMDQ based switching. Any other advanced switching logics can be >>> proposed based on this framework. >>> c. Merge tep_termination example vxlan as a switching logic of the >>> framework. >> >> I was also thinking of making physical port optional and add MAC >> learning, >> so this is all good for me. > > To make it clear, we are not proposing to eliminate physical port, > instead, we just eliminate the binding of VMDQ and virtio ports, > superseding it with a MAC learning switching. > >> >> Let me know if I can help in implementation, I'll be happy to >> contribute. > > Thank you for participating. Currently, I'm working on item a (will be a > quick and simple fix). Pankaj is working on item b (which would be a > huge change). Item c is depending on item b. So let's wait RFC patch > from Pankaj and see what we can help.
Pankaj, so I organize myself , do you have an idea of when the RFC patch will be available? Thanks, Maxime