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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:09:35 +1000 From: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au> To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com> Cc: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...taire.com>, "e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" <e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>, "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> Subject: Re: igb bandwidth allocation configuration On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:29:26AM +1000, Simon Horman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:01:52AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote: > > Or Gerlitz wrote: > > >If the rate limiter is exposed as a feature of the VF, it doesn't > > >matter who really enforces it, the "VF portion" of the HW or the > > >PF itself. I agree that if you have to program the PF for the rate > > >of a specific VF, then its more complex. Basically, I would expect > > >that a VF can be configured with <mac, vlad-id, priority, rate> > > >such that it can be done where the VF NIC is spawned, host kernel > > >or guest kernel. > > > > Adding the rate limiter as a feature of the VF doesn't make much > > sense since the VF could be direct assigned to another OS for all we > > know so we won't have control over it from there. > > > > The interface for all of this would make sense as part of a virtual > > ethernet switch control which is the way I am currently leaning on > > all this. As such it is probably another thing we can bring up at > > the BOF session at the Linux Plumbers Conference. > > Unfortunately I won't be able to make it to the BOF or Plumbers. > I look forward to hearing what is discussed. Is there any chance of being able to participate in this remotely, even just a listen-only feed of some sort would be quite valuable to me and possibly others. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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