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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:06:41 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH iproute2] ip: Add support for setting MAC and VLAN on hardware queues On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:55:07 -0800 Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> wrote: > From: Williams, Mitch A <mitch.a.williams@...el.com> > > This patch adds support to the "ip" tool for setting the MAC address and > VLAN filter for hardware device queues. This is most immediately useful for > SR-IOV; for VF devices to be usable in the real world, the hypervisor or VM > manager must be able to set these parameters before the VF device is > assigned to any VM. > > Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@...el.com> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> Is there anything to avoid prevent this from being misused by users who are doing multiqueue. Maybe we need equivalent of "mounted" flag that block devices have? -- 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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