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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arndbergmann@googlemail.com>,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc 0/4] igb: bandwidth allocation
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:09:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpjh896f.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091105005847.941190065@vergenet.net> (Simon Horman's message of "Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:58:47 +1100")

Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> writes:

> Hi,
>
> this series of patches exposes the bandwidth allocation
> hardware support of the Intel 82576. It does so through
> a rather hackish sysfs entry. That interface is just intended
> for testing so that the exposed hardware feature can
> be exercised. I would like to find a generic way to expose
> this feature to user-space.

It would be cool if you had a interface that did a software
fallback for NICs that don't support this.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-05 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-05  0:58 [rfc 0/4] igb: bandwidth allocation Simon Horman
2009-11-05  0:58 ` [rfc 1/4] igb: Add igb_cleanup_vf() Simon Horman
2009-11-05  0:58 ` [rfc 2/4] igb: Initialise adapter->vfs_allocated_count in igb_init_vf() Simon Horman
2009-11-05  0:58 ` [rfc 3/4] igb: Common error path in igb_init_vfs() Simon Horman
2009-11-05  0:58 ` [rfc 4/4] igb: expose 82576 bandiwidth allocation Simon Horman
2009-11-05 23:00   ` Alexander Duyck
2009-11-05 23:30     ` Simon Horman
2009-11-05 23:42       ` Alexander Duyck
2009-11-06  3:57         ` Simon Horman
2009-11-05  1:46 ` [rfc 0/4] igb: bandwidth allocation Jeff Kirsher
2009-11-05  2:21   ` Simon Horman
2009-11-14  8:01     ` Jeff Kirsher
2009-11-25  6:31       ` Simon Horman
2009-11-05 12:09 ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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