From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 v2] iplink: Support VF Trust Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:20:17 -0800 Message-ID: <20160302092017.44982621@xeon-e3> References: <7F861DC0615E0C47A872E6F3C5FCDDBD05FB353F@BPXM14GP.gisp.nec.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff Kirsher , "Rose, Gregory V" , Or Gerlitz , Alexander Duyck , "Skidmore, Donald C" , "intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org" , "nhorman@redhat.com" , "jogreene@redhat.com" , Linux Netdev List , "Choi, Sy Jong" , Rony Efraim , Edward Cree , David Miller , "sassmann@redhat.com" To: Hiroshi Shimamoto Return-path: Received: from mail-pf0-f181.google.com ([209.85.192.181]:36760 "EHLO mail-pf0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753373AbcCBRUG (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2016 12:20:06 -0500 Received: by mail-pf0-f181.google.com with SMTP id 63so7931085pfe.3 for ; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 09:20:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <7F861DC0615E0C47A872E6F3C5FCDDBD05FB353F@BPXM14GP.gisp.nec.co.jp> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 02:40:18 +0000 Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote: > From: Hiroshi Shimamoto > > Add IFLA_VF_TRUST message to trust the VF. > PF can accept some privileged operation from the trusted VF. > For example, ixgbe PF doesn't allow to enable VF promiscuous mode until > the VF is trusted because it may hurt performance. > > To trust VF. > # ip link set dev eth0 vf 1 trust on > > To untrust VF. > # ip link set dev eth0 vf 1 trust off > > Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto Applied.