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From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 15:44:54 -0800

> While I agree that ethtool provides a similar functionality, ethtool
> was designed (particularly the ethtool -C/c commands) around one queue
> NICs.  We can't change the output or functionality of the user
> interface without breaking a bunch of user's scripts and stuff.

See my suggestion, we can encapsulate existing ethtool commands inside
of a new command that specifies operations that are to be applied to
specific queues.

Do not use sysfs for this.