netdev - RE: [RFC PATCH 1/4] net: Add support to netdev ops for changing hardware queue MAC and VLAN filters

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Message-ID: <EA929A9653AAE14F841771FB1DE5A1365FA6B4DC98@rrsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:14:10 -0700
From:	"Williams, Mitch A" <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
CC:	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"shemminger@...tta.com" <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gospo@...hat.com" <gospo@...hat.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 1/4] net: Add support to netdev ops for changing
	hardware queue MAC and VLAN filters

>From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:bhutchings@...arflare.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 6:18 AM


>> [snip]
>>
>> >
>> >How does this interact with use of multiple queues within a single
>> >function?  Are the specified queue numbers really interpreted as RX
>> >queue indices or as function numbers?
>> >
>> >Ben.
>>
>> Yeah, that is ambiguous.  Would it be better if we changed the name of
>the parameter to 'vf' instead of 'queue' to make it explicit?
>>
>> This would give us:
>> $ ip link set eth1 vf 1 mac <blah>
>>
>> The issue of which VF goes with which PF device can be deduced in
>userspace via sysfs.
>>
>> If we want to make this apply to non SR-IOV queues, then we'll add a new
>parameter later.
>>
>> Works for you?
>
>OK, this sounds reasonable.
>
>Ben.
>

Thanks for looking at this stuff, Ben. I appreciate it. I'll rework the patches and send them out in a few days.

-Mitch
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