netdev - Re: igb bandwidth allocation configuration

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Message-ID: <20090917010935.GA19201@verge.net.au>
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.
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