From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel•com>
To: Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@gmail•com>
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, roland@kernel•org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
ali@mellanox•com, sean.hefty@intel•com, shlomop@mellanox•com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] net: Add support for virtual machine device queues (VMDQ)
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:21:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <503BAC98.2070508@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZOPZJyXnHymw4D4VWAajc7Q1EeSaTHRYn7p9sKG2hiHGjr_A@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/27/2012 2:47 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:09 PM, John Fastabend
> <john.r.fastabend@intel•com> wrote:
>> That seems reasonable to me. Adding a 'sub' argument to the set
>> routines should do it. Also the 'get' routines would need to be
>> extended to report back these virtual net devices.
>>
>> int (*ndo_set_vf_mac)(struct net_device *dev, int vf, int sub, u8* mac);
>> int (*ndo_set_vf_vlan)(struct net_device *dev,
>> int vf, int sub, u16 vlan, u8 qos);
>> int (*ndo_set_vf_tx_rate)(struct net_device *dev,
>> int vf, int sub, int rate);
>> int (*ndo_set_vf_spoofchk)(struct net_device *dev,
>> int vf, int sub, bool setting);
>> int (*ndo_get_vf_config)(struct net_device *dev,
>> int vf, int sub,
>> struct fila_vf_info *ivf)
>
>> I would need to check if any of the ixgbe/igb supported hardware can
>> support virtual device queues on virtual functions like this but I
>> presume if your looking at this you have some hardware that can.
>
> Yes, we look on HW that can.
>
> Your suggestion makes sense, I will check here if this well addresses
> the eswitch
> use case we envision or/what is missing.
>
> Or.
>
Sounds good let us know. Ben had some comments I need to address as
well.
.John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-27 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-18 22:05 [RFC PATCH] net: Add support for virtual machine device queues (VMDQ) John Fastabend
2012-07-19 6:42 ` Jiri Pirko
2012-07-20 16:30 ` John Fastabend
2012-07-20 18:01 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-20 20:58 ` John Fastabend
2012-07-20 18:09 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-26 13:11 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-26 19:09 ` John Fastabend
2012-08-27 9:47 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-27 17:21 ` John Fastabend [this message]
2012-08-27 21:39 ` Or Gerlitz
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