Netdev 2.1 - Distributed Switch Architecture By Andrew Lunn, Vivien Didelot, Florian Fainelli
Channel: netdevconf
Date: 04/05/2017

In this talk given at Netdev 2.1 in Montreal on 6th of Apr/2017, Andrew Lunn, Vivien Didelot and  Florian Fainelli give the first of a kind talk on Distributed Switch Architecture that was introduced in Linux about a decade ago.

The authors talk about the design goals and paradigms of DSA and why they make it a good fit for supporting small home/office routers and switches. The talk covers the work that was done over the past 4 years, the relationship with switchdev and the networking stack, and finally give a heads-up on the upcoming developments to be expected.

https://www.netdevconf.org/2.1/session.html?lunn_didelot_fainelli