netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: Add support to configure SR-IOV VF minimum and maximum queues.

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Date:   Tue, 29 May 2018 20:19:54 -0700
From:   Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
To:     "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: Add support to configure SR-IOV VF
 minimum and maximum queues.

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Samudrala, Sridhar
<sridhar.samudrala@...el.com> wrote:

>
> Isn't ndo_set_vf_xxx() considered a legacy interface and not planned to be
> extended?

I didn't know about that.

> Shouldn't we enable this via ethtool on the port representor netdev?
>
>

We discussed about this.  ethtool on the VF representor will only work
in switchdev mode and also will not support min/max values.