netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] i40e: allow VMDQs to be used with AF

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Date:   Fri, 11 Sep 2020 08:33:54 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...il.com>
Cc:     magnus.karlsson@...el.com, bjorn.topel@...el.com,
        intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com,
        maciejromanfijalkowski@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] i40e: allow VMDQs to be used with AF_XDP
 zero-copy

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:08:26 +0200 Magnus Karlsson wrote:
> From: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>
> 
> Allow VMDQs to be used with AF_XDP sockets in zero-copy mode. For some
> reason, we only allowed main VSIs to be used with zero-copy, but
> there is now reason to not allow VMDQs also.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>

The VMQ interfaces that you create through a debugfs command interfaces?

IDK if we should add features to those, or pretend they never existed
in the first place..