From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3] igbvf: add new driver to support 82576 virtual functions Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:05:07 +0100 Message-ID: <49CB7D83.10205@trash.net> References: <20090325215248.28529.62295.stgit@lost.foo-projects.org> <20090325150322.40e0a1e6@nehalam> <49CAB13B.7070601@intel.com> <20090325.165847.234084422.davem@davemloft.net> <49CAD25F.4080705@intel.com> <20090326023343.GA8138@yzhao-otc.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "shemminger@vyatta.com" , Alexander Duyck , David Miller , "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "gospo@redhat.com" To: Yu Zhao Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:63815 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757601AbZCZNFT (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:05:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090326023343.GA8138@yzhao-otc.sh.intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Yu Zhao wrote: > We do have some powerful tools for network device configuration, but they > still can't cover the multi queue and SR-IOV NICs (also David Woodhouse's > Solos DSL, etc.) configuration requirement. Unless someone improves the > existing tools to support configuring these new hardware features, people > would keep trying to use the sysfs which is the easiest way so far. So what are these missing features in the existing interfaces?