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Message-ID: <20100422210342.GC30693@x200.localdomain> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:03:42 -0700 From: Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com>, Scott Feldman <scofeldm@...co.com>, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@...el.com> Subject: Re: [net-next,1/2] add iovnl netlink support * Arnd Bergmann (arnd@...db.de) wrote: > On Thursday 22 April 2010 21:02:30 Chris Wright wrote: > > * Arnd Bergmann (arnd@...db.de) wrote: > > > On Thursday 22 April 2010 19:47:29 Chris Wright wrote: > > > > OK, wasn't clear if you meant that or simply 100% dedicating the interface > > > > via something like virtio. The add_vf() idea, while neat, doesn't really > > > > match how VF's are allocated. > > > > > > But we still need something like that for allocating queues in VMDq > > > and similar cases where we do not have pass-through, right? > > > > Iff we care about VMDq w/out SR-IOV (since SR-IOV hardware is VMDq > > capable and already has a queue-pair + interrupt + net_dev), yes. > > > > And it's not just VMDq, it's any multi-queue card that can do mac/vlan > > filter in hw + header/data split (for direct data DMA to guest buffers). > > Right, that's what I meant by VMDq. Do we have a better term to describe > this class of devices, i.e. VMDq and other cards that also have the > features you listed? I don't have a good term. Some of these devices can already surface multiple netdevs. thanks, -chris -- 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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