From: ebiederman@lnxi.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC/v1][11/12] Add InfiniBand Documentation files
Date: 23 Nov 2004 01:49:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37jodlzlf.fsf@maxwell.lnxi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041122153144.GA4821@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:
> > + When the IPoIB driver is loaded, it creates one interface for each
> > + port using the P_Key at index 0. To create an interface with a
> > + different P_Key, write the desired P_Key into the main interface's
> > + /sys/class/net/<intf name>/create_child file. For example:
> > +
> > + echo 0x8001 > /sys/class/net/ib0/create_child
> > +
> > + This will create an interface named ib0.8001 with P_Key 0x8001. To
> > + remove a subinterface, use the "delete_child" file:
> > +
> > + echo 0x8001 > /sys/class/net/ib0/delete_child
> > +
> > + The P_Key for any interface is given by the "pkey" file, and the
> > + main interface for a subinterface is in "parent."
>
> Any reason this doesn't use an interface similar to the normal vlan code?
>
> And what is a P_Key?
IB version of a vlan identifier.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-23 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20041122713.cSeT4UFKGqJDdZ8T@topspin.com>
2004-11-22 15:13 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][6/12] IPoIB IPv4 multicast Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:13 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][7/12] IPoIB IPv6 support Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:14 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][8/12] Add IPoIB (IP-over-InfiniBand) driver Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:14 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][9/12] Add InfiniBand userspace MAD support Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:14 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][10/12] Document InfiniBand ioctl use Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:14 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][11/12] Add InfiniBand Documentation files Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:14 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][12/12] InfiniBand MAINTAINERS entry Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:31 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][11/12] Add InfiniBand Documentation files Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-22 15:41 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-23 8:49 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2004-11-22 22:53 ` Greg KH
2004-11-22 22:58 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 23:05 ` Greg KH
2004-11-22 23:21 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 23:30 ` [openib-general] " Johannes Erdfelt
2004-11-23 6:45 ` Greg KH
2004-11-23 6:51 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2004-11-23 7:38 ` Greg KH
2004-11-22 22:50 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][9/12] Add InfiniBand userspace MAD support Greg KH
2004-11-22 23:05 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-23 7:45 ` Greg KH
2004-11-23 15:04 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-23 2:08 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-23 6:30 ` Greg KH
2004-11-23 6:45 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-23 7:43 ` Greg KH
2004-11-23 15:06 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-23 15:17 ` Greg KH
2004-11-22 19:40 ` [PATCH][RFC/v1][8/12] Add IPoIB (IP-over-InfiniBand) driver Sam Ravnborg
2004-11-22 22:34 ` Greg KH
2004-11-22 23:18 ` Roland Dreier
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