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Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 19:24:34 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@...lanox.com>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip link: Add support to configure SR-IOV VF to
vlan protocol 802.1ad (VST QinQ)
On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:58:59 +0300
Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com> wrote:
> From: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...lanox.com>
>
> Introduce a new API that exposes a list of vlans per VF (IFLA_VF_VLAN_LIST),
> giving the ability for user-space application to specify it for the VF as
> an option to support 802.1ad (VST QinQ).
>
> We introduce struct vf_vlan_info, which extends struct vf_vlan and adds
> an optional VF VLAN proto parameter.
> Default VLAN-protocol is 802.1Q.
>
> Add IFLA_VF_VLAN_LIST in addition to IFLA_VF_VLAN to keep backward
> compatibility with older kernel versions.
>
> Suitable ip link tool command examples:
> - Set vf vlan protocol 802.1ad (S-TAG)
> ip link set eth0 vf 1 vlan 100 proto 802.1ad
> - Set vf vlan S-TAG and vlan C-TAG (VST QinQ)
> ip link set eth0 vf 1 vlan 100 proto 802.1ad vlan 30 proto 802.1Q
> - Set vf to VST (802.1Q) mode
> ip link set eth0 vf 1 vlan 100 proto 802.1Q
> - Or by omitting the new parameter (backward compatible)
> ip link set eth0 vf 1 vlan 100
>
> Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
Applied to net-next (for 4.9)
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