From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anirban Chakraborty Subject: Re: eSwitch management Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:57:51 -0700 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: David Miller , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "chrisw@redhat.com" , Arnd Bergmann , Ameen Rahman , Amit Salecha , Rajesh Borundia To: Scott Feldman Return-path: Received: from avexcashub1.qlogic.com ([198.70.193.61]:43259 "EHLO avexcashub1.qlogic.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755860Ab0DWF5w convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:57:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Apr 22, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Scott Feldman wrote: > On 4/22/10 5:47 PM, "Scott Feldman" wrote: > >> On 4/22/10 4:16 PM, "Anirban Chakraborty" >> wrote: >> >>> I am following the discussions on iovnl patch closely. While it is going to >>> take some time for iovnl patch to be reviewed and accepted, what would be the >>> interim approach to manage the eswitch in NIC? We need to add support in >>> qlcnic driver to configure the eswitch in our 10G NIC. Some of the things >>> that >>> we need to set to the switch are setting a port's VLAN, tx bandwidth etc. We >>> would like to set these parameters for a bunch of ports at the start of the >>> day and set it to the eswitch. >> >> Are any of these settings covered in DCB? (net/dcb/dcbnl.c). Maybe you can >> get a start there? Not sure not knowing your device requirements. > > Or maybe the RTM_SETLINK IFLA_VF_* ops in include/linux/if_link.h? Those > seem like what you're looking for. I'm looking at moving iovnl here as well > for port-profile. It looks like ifla_vf_info does contain most of the data set. But if I use it, what NETLINK protocol family should I use in my driver to receive netlink messages? Do I need to create a private protocol family? Thanks a lot, Anirban