From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3] igbvf: add new driver to support 82576 virtual functions Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:16:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090325.201635.245115032.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090325.165847.234084422.davem@davemloft.net> <49CAD25F.4080705@intel.com> <20090326023343.GA8138@yzhao-otc.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com To: yu.zhao@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:52108 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753928AbZCZDQt (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:16:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090326023343.GA8138@yzhao-otc.sh.intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Yu Zhao Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:33:43 +0800 > We do have some powerful tools for network device configuration, but > they still can't cover the multi queue and SR-IOV NICs (also David > Woodhouse's Solos DSL, etc.) configuration requirement. We have a generic link creation mechanism in rtnl_link so I think this claim wrt. SR-IOV is false. Believe it or not, somebody took the time to make a generic mechanism for things many virtual network device drivers have to do, and igb/igbvf can use it too.