From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 1/3] virtio_net: propagate linkspeed/duplex settings from the hypervisor Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:38:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20180109.113812.2257853296058477300.davem@davemloft.net> References: <718139aaea9a1ef032b29429af570fb171fdacac.1515190238.git.jbaron@akamai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mst@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org To: jbaron@akamai.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:33974 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751210AbeAIQiO (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2018 11:38:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <718139aaea9a1ef032b29429af570fb171fdacac.1515190238.git.jbaron@akamai.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jason Baron Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:44:54 -0500 > The ability to set speed and duplex for virtio_net is useful in various > scenarios as described here: > > 16032be virtio_net: add ethtool support for set and get of settings > > However, it would be nice to be able to set this from the hypervisor, > such that virtio_net doesn't require custom guest ethtool commands. > > Introduce a new feature flag, VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX, which allows > the hypervisor to export a linkspeed and duplex setting. The user can > subsequently overwrite it later if desired via: 'ethtool -s'. > > Note that VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX is defined as bit 63, the intention > is that device feature bits are to grow down from bit 63, since the > transports are starting from bit 24 and growing up. > > Signed-off-by: Jason Baron Applied, thanks Jason.