Subject: Re: [rfc 0/4] igb: bandwidth allocation

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:09:44 +0100

Simon Horman <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> this series of patches exposes the bandwidth allocation
> hardware support of the Intel 82576. It does so through
> a rather hackish sysfs entry. That interface is just intended
> for testing so that the exposed hardware feature can
> be exercised. I would like to find a generic way to expose
> this feature to user-space.

It would be cool if you had a interface that did a software
fallback for NICs that don't support this.

-Andi

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