Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/7]: ixgbevf: Allow querying VFs RSS indirection table and key

[Vlad Zolotarov <vladz@cloudius-systems.com>]

On 01/07/15 22:03, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-01-07 at 21:26 +0200, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
>> Add the ethtool ops to VF driver to allow querying the RSS indirection
>> table
>> and RSS Random Key.
>>
>> On some devices VFs share the RSS Redirection Table and Hash Key with
>> a PF and letting
>> the VF query this information may introduce some security risks.
>> Therefore we disable this
>> feature by default for such devices (e.g. 82599) and allow it for
>> those where there isn't any
>> possible risk (e.g. on x550). The new netdev op is going to allow a
>> system administrator to
>> change the default behaviour with "ip link set" command.
>>
>>   - netdev: Add a new netdev op to allow/block VF from querying RSS
>> Indirection Table and
>>     RSS Hash Key.
>>   - PF driver: Add new VF-PF channel commands.
>>   - VF driver: Utilize these new commands and add the corresponding
>>                ethtool callbacks.
>>
>> New in v5:
>>     - Added a new netdev op to allow/block VF from querying RSS
>> Indirection Table and
>>       RSS Hash Key.
>>     - Let VF query the RSS info only if VF is allowed to.
>>
>> New in v4:
>>     - Forgot to run checkpatch on v3 and there were a few styling
>> things to fix. ;)
>>
>> New in v3:
>>     - Added a missing support for x550 devices.
>>     - Mask the indirection table values according to PSRTYPE[n].RQPL.
>>     - Minimized the number of added VF-PF commands.
>>
>> New in v2:
>>     - Added a detailed description to patches 4 and 5.
>>
>> New in v1 (compared to RFC):
>>     - Use "if-else" statement instead of a "switch-case" for a single
>> option case.
>>       More specifically: in cases where the newly added API version is
>> the only one
>>       allowed. We may consider using a "switch-case" back again when
>> the list of
>>       allowed API versions in these specific places grows up.
>>
>> Vlad Zolotarov (7):
>>    if_link: Add an additional parameter to ifla_vf_info for RSS
>> querying
>>    ixgbe: Add a new netdev op to allow/prevent a VF from querying an
>> RSS
>>      info
>>    ixgbe: Add a RETA query command to VF-PF channel API
>>    ixgbevf: Add a RETA query code
>>    ixgbe: Add GET_RSS_KEY command to VF-PF channel commands set
>>    ixgbevf: Add RSS Key query code
>>    ixgbevf: Add the appropriate ethtool ops to query RSS indirection
>>      table and key
>>
>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe.h          |   1 +
>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c     |   7 ++
>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_mbx.h      |  10 ++
>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c    | 119
>> +++++++++++++++++++
>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.h    |   2 +
>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ethtool.c      |  42 +++++++
>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c |   4 +-
>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/mbx.h          |  10 ++
>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c           | 132
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.h           |   2 +
>>   include/linux/if_link.h                           |   1 +
>>   include/linux/netdevice.h                         |   8 ++
>>   include/uapi/linux/if_link.h                      |   8 ++
>>   net/core/rtnetlink.c                              |  33 +++++-
>>   14 files changed, 372 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> Thanks Vlad, I will add your patches to my queue.

Thanks, guys (Greg and Jeff).