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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat•com>
Cc: Scott Feldman <scofeldm@cisco•com>,
	davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel•com>
Subject: Re: [net-next,1/2] add iovnl netlink support
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:36:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004222136.50397.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100422190230.GL28829@x200.localdomain>

On Thursday 22 April 2010 21:02:30 Chris Wright wrote:
> * Arnd Bergmann (arnd@arndb•de) wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 April 2010 19:47:29 Chris Wright wrote:
> > > OK, wasn't clear if you meant that or simply 100% dedicating the interface
> > > via something like virtio.  The add_vf() idea, while neat, doesn't really
> > > match how VF's are allocated.
> > 
> > But we still need something like that for allocating queues in VMDq
> > and similar cases where we do not have pass-through, right?
> 
> Iff we care about VMDq w/out SR-IOV (since SR-IOV hardware is VMDq
> capable and already has a queue-pair + interrupt + net_dev), yes.
> 
> And it's not just VMDq, it's any multi-queue card that can do mac/vlan
> filter in hw + header/data split (for direct data DMA to guest buffers).

Right, that's what I meant by VMDq. Do we have a better term to describe
this class of devices, i.e. VMDq and other cards that also have the
features you listed?

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-22 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-19 19:18 [net-next PATCH 0/2] iovnl netlink ops + enic dynamic vnics Scott Feldman
2010-04-19 19:18 ` [net-next PATCH 1/2] add iovnl netlink support Scott Feldman
2010-04-20 13:48   ` [net-next,1/2] " Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-20 14:34     ` Chris Wright
2010-04-20 14:57       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-20 15:22         ` Chris Wright
2010-04-20 16:19           ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-20 20:26             ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-21 13:17               ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-21 16:28                 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-21 18:04                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-20 19:56     ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-21 11:26       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-21 11:42         ` Selective MD5 Checksum Failuers Bijay Singh
2010-04-21 16:18         ` [net-next,1/2] add iovnl netlink support Chris Wright
2010-04-21 17:52           ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-21 18:10             ` Chris Wright
2010-04-21 19:39               ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-21 20:25                 ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-21 21:13                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-21 22:48                     ` Chris Wright
2010-04-22  6:51                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22 17:47                         ` Chris Wright
2010-04-22 18:48                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22 19:02                             ` Chris Wright
2010-04-22 19:36                               ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-04-22 21:03                                 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-21 23:54                     ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-22 12:49                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22  7:09                     ` David Miller
2010-04-21 22:18                 ` Chris Wright
2010-04-22  0:01                   ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-21 21:22     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22  6:48   ` [net-next PATCH 1/2] " David Miller
2010-04-22 21:23     ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-22 23:04       ` David Miller
2010-04-22 23:16       ` eSwitch management Anirban Chakraborty
2010-04-23  0:47         ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-23  1:29           ` Scott Feldman
2010-04-23  5:57             ` Anirban Chakraborty
2010-04-23 12:42               ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-23 16:23               ` Chris Wright
2010-04-23 19:00                 ` Anirban Chakraborty
2010-04-23 19:44                   ` Chris Wright
2010-04-23 21:08                     ` Anirban Chakraborty
2010-04-23 23:04                       ` Chris Wright
2010-04-24  6:21                         ` Anirban Chakraborty
2010-04-22  6:52   ` [net-next PATCH 1/2] add iovnl netlink support David Miller
2010-04-22 10:53     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-22 10:56       ` David Miller
2010-04-22 11:12         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-04-19 19:18 ` [net-next PATCH 2/2] add enic iovnl ops for dynamic vnics Scott Feldman
2010-04-19 21:35 ` [net-next PATCH 0/2] iovnl netlink ops + enic " Chris Wright

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