From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
yuvalmin@broadcom.com, gregory.v.rose@intel.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New commands to configure IOV features
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:29:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5009B186.6000806@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1342806146.2678.31.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
On 07/20/2012 11:42 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> The ethtool API is typically used for net device operations that can be
> largely devolved to individual drivers, and which the network stack can
> mostly ignore (though offload features are an historical exception to
> this). It started with Ethernet link settings, but many operations are
> applicable (and implemented by) other types of network device.
That (potentially) accounts for all network devices, but it leaves all
the other devices that could export virtual functions.
Why should I need to use a different API to enable virtual functions on
my network device and my storage controller? (And why should "ethtool"
or "ip" care that it's a virtual function?)
What Don and I are suggesting is that the concept of virtual functions
is a PCI thing, so it should be dealt with at the PCI layer. Regardless
of the type of device the export of virtual functions is conceptually
the same thing, so it should use the same API.
Once the device exists, then domain-specific APIs would be used to
configure it the same way that they would configure a physical device.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-20 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-07 11:17 New commands to configure IOV features Yuval Mintz
2012-05-07 15:16 ` Greg Rose
2012-06-26 12:21 ` Yuval Mintz
2012-06-26 16:13 ` Alexander Duyck
2012-06-26 17:19 ` Greg Rose
2012-07-01 11:09 ` Yuval Mintz
2012-07-09 18:39 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-09 21:13 ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-16 9:19 ` Yuval Mintz
2012-07-17 19:29 ` Don Dutile
2012-07-17 21:08 ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-17 21:11 ` David Miller
2012-07-20 15:27 ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-20 15:56 ` Don Dutile
2012-07-20 17:42 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-20 19:29 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2012-07-20 20:01 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-20 20:15 ` Don Dutile
2012-07-20 23:42 ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-21 0:52 ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-07-23 14:03 ` Don Dutile
2012-07-23 15:09 ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-23 17:06 ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-07-23 18:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-07-23 18:40 ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-09-19 11:07 ` Yuval Mintz
2012-09-19 15:53 ` Greg Rose
2012-09-19 19:44 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-19 22:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-19 22:46 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-20 0:19 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-20 1:23 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-20 2:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-20 3:08 ` Subhendu Ghosh
2012-09-20 15:39 ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-09-20 15:39 ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-09-21 5:50 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-21 17:35 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-21 19:23 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-21 18:06 ` Don Dutile
2012-09-21 18:06 ` Don Dutile
2012-09-21 19:49 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-21 20:08 ` Don Dutile
2012-09-21 20:08 ` Don Dutile
2012-09-23 15:49 ` Yuval Mintz
2012-09-24 17:37 ` Don Dutile
2012-09-24 17:37 ` Don Dutile
2012-09-30 6:39 ` Yuval Mintz
2012-10-01 14:12 ` Don Dutile
2012-10-01 14:12 ` Don Dutile
2012-09-19 17:49 ` David Miller
2012-07-23 16:37 ` Rose, Gregory V
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