From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com,
Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>,
Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH iproute2] ip: Add support for setting MAC and VLAN on hardware queues
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:06:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091117140641.7f8c8ac0@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091117215432.15195.94504.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:55:07 -0800
Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> wrote:
> From: Williams, Mitch A <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
>
> This patch adds support to the "ip" tool for setting the MAC address and
> VLAN filter for hardware device queues. This is most immediately useful for
> SR-IOV; for VF devices to be usable in the real world, the hypervisor or VM
> manager must be able to set these parameters before the VF device is
> assigned to any VM.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Is there anything to avoid prevent this from being misused by users who
are doing multiqueue. Maybe we need equivalent of "mounted" flag that block
devices have?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-17 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-17 21:55 [RFC PATCH iproute2] ip: Add support for setting MAC and VLAN on hardware queues Jeff Kirsher
2009-11-17 22:06 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-11-18 18:07 ` David Miller
2009-11-18 19:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-11-18 22:07 ` Williams, Mitch A
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