From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip link set vf: Added "query_rss" command Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:47:32 -0700 Message-ID: <20150324154732.57d84cb6@urahara> References: <1427050378-15004-1-git-send-email-vladz@cloudius-systems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com To: Vlad Zolotarov Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f170.google.com ([209.85.192.170]:36679 "EHLO mail-pd0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751842AbbCXWr3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:47:29 -0400 Received: by pdbcz9 with SMTP id cz9so7488981pdb.3 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:47:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1427050378-15004-1-git-send-email-vladz@cloudius-systems.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 20:52:58 +0200 Vlad Zolotarov wrote: > Add a new option to toggle the ability of querying the RSS configuration of a specific VF. > > VF RSS information like RSS hash key may be considered sensitive on some devices where > this information is shared between VF and PF and thus its querying may be prohibited by default. > > This new option allows a system administrator with privileges to modify a PF state > to control if the above VF querying is allowed or not. > > For example: > To enable RSS querying of VF[0] of ethX: > >> ip link set dev ethX vf 0 query_rss on > > Signed-off-by: Vlad Zolotarov Holding off on this going into iproute until kernel component goes into net-next