From: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
To: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New commands to configure IOV features
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:19:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120626101903.0000791c@unknown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE9A963.7020602@broadcom.com>
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:21:55 +0300
Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> wrote:
> On 05/07/2012 06:16 PM, Greg Rose wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 7 May 2012 14:17:54 +0300
> > Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I've tried to figure out if there was a standard interface
> >> (ethtool/iproute) through which a user could configure the number
> >> of vfs in his system.
> >>
> >> I've seen the RFC suggested in
> >> http://markmail.org/thread/qblfcv7zbxsxp7q6, and
> >> http://markmail.org/thread/fw54dcppmxuxoe6n, but failed to see any
> >> later references to it (commits or further discussion on this
> >> topic).
> >>
> >> How exactly are things standing with these RFCs? Were they
> >> abandoned?
> >
> > The only way to configure the number of VFs continues to be through
> > the max_vfs module parameter. I've got a patch to do it through
> > ethtool sitting on the back burner but due to other requirements of
> > my day job I've not been able to work on it since last fall.
> >
> > - Greg
>
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> If I want to pick the RFCs and add support for configuring the number
> of VFs - do you think ethtool's the right place for such added
> support?
>
> I'm asking since as far as I can see, ethtool (today) doesn't contain
> any features related to virtual functions.
I think a PCI utility tool would be better, SR-IOV is not limited to
network devices. That's one of the reasons I dropped the RFC. I
haven't gotten back to the idea since then due to my day job keeping me
pretty busy.
- Greg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-26 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ 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 [this message]
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
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
2012-09-21 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 19:49 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-21 20:08 ` Don Dutile
2012-09-23 15:49 ` Yuval Mintz
2012-09-24 17:37 ` Don Dutile
2012-09-30 6:39 ` Yuval Mintz
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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