netdev - RE: [RFC net-next PATCH 3/4] ethtool: Add new set commands

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:16:53 -0700
From:	"Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC net-next PATCH 3/4] ethtool: Add new set commands

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:bhutchings@...arflare.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 2:15 PM
> To: David Miller
> Cc: Rose, Gregory V; netdev@...r.kernel.org; Kirsher, Jeffrey T
> Subject: Re: [RFC net-next PATCH 3/4] ethtool: Add new set commands
> 
> On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 09:14 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: "Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>
> > Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:51:05 -0700
> >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net]
> > >> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 10:28 PM
> > >> To: Rose, Gregory V
> > >> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org; bhutchings@...arflare.com; Kirsher,
> Jeffrey T
> > >> Subject: Re: [RFC net-next PATCH 3/4] ethtool: Add new set commands
> > >>
> > >> From: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>
> > >> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:17:59 -0700
> > >>
> > >> > Add new set commands to configure the number of SR-IOV VFs, the
> > >> > number of VM queues and spoof checking on/off switch.
> > >> >
> > >> > Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>
> > >> > ---
> > >> >
> > >> >  include/linux/ethtool.h |   11 ++++++++++-
> > >> >  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > >> >
> > >> > diff --git a/include/linux/ethtool.h b/include/linux/ethtool.h
> > >> > index c6e427a..c4972ba 100644
> > >> > --- a/include/linux/ethtool.h
> > >> > +++ b/include/linux/ethtool.h
> > >> > @@ -36,12 +36,14 @@ struct ethtool_cmd {
> > >> >  	__u8	mdio_support;
> > >> >  	__u32	maxtxpkt;	/* Tx pkts before generating tx int */
> > >> >  	__u32	maxrxpkt;	/* Rx pkts before generating rx int */
> > >> > +	__u32	num_vfs;	/* Enable SR-IOV VFs */
> > >> > +	__u32	num_vmqs;	/* Set number of queues for VMDq */
> > >>
> > >> You can't change the layout of this datastructure in this way without
> > >> breaking every ethtool binary out there.
> > >>
> > >> You have to find another place to add these knobs.
> > >
> > > Perhaps at the end of the ethtool_cmd structure?  Something like this:
> >
> > Either use the two reserved u32's we have there, or create a new
> > ethtool command and control structure.
> 
> I'm going to insist on the latter.  As I see it, struct ethtool_cmd is
> for Ethernet PHY settings.  (The max{rx,tx}pkt fields weren't, but
> they're obsolete.)

OK, that's what I'll do.

- Greg