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
next prev parent 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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