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From: Scott Feldman <scofeldm@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: eSwitch management
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:47:48 -0700
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On 4/22/10 4:16 PM, "Anirban Chakraborty" <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com>
wrote:

> I am following the discussions on iovnl patch closely. While it is going to
> take some time for iovnl patch to be reviewed and accepted, what would be the
> interim approach to manage the eswitch in NIC? We need to add support in
> qlcnic driver to configure the eswitch in our 10G NIC. Some of the things that
> we need to set to the switch are setting a port's VLAN, tx bandwidth etc. We
> would like to set these parameters for a bunch of ports at the start of the
> day and set it to the eswitch.

Are any of these settings covered in DCB?  (net/dcb/dcbnl.c).  Maybe you can
get a start there?  Not sure not knowing your device requirements.

-scott