netdev - RE: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/5] if_link: Add SR-IOV configuration methods

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Message-ID: <EA929A9653AAE14F841771FB1DE5A1365FDD55C136@rrsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:33:41 -0700
From:	"Williams, Mitch A" <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>
To:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
CC:	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gospo@...hat.com" <gospo@...hat.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...taire.com>
Subject: RE: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/5] if_link: Add SR-IOV configuration
 	methods

>From: Or Gerlitz [mailto:or.gerlitz@...il.com]
>Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 6:26 AM


>In the same manner that vconfig does for 8021q devices, except for VID
>there's a need
>to let the user control on the egress qos mapping (vlan priority bits)
>per VF (I don't think it
>need to go per skb priority). Where for NIC HW which supports setting
>the VID only, the
>packets will be marked with a default priority.

To be honest, Or, this completely slipped my mind. I'll add it to my
to-do list.

If it's OK with you, I'd prefer to get this set of patches in as-is and
add the egress qos stuff later. A lot of people have been asking for
these patches, so I'd rather not delay for this feature.

-Mitch
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