>-----Original Message----- >From: 贺鹏 [mailto:xnhp0...@gmail.com] >Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 1:47 AM >To: e1000-devel >Subject: [E1000-devel] Is there any infrastructure in igb >driver code to map a VMDq queue to an virtual interface in a >linux container? > >HI Everyone: > I read the igb code. it seems the VMDq supports only works in >the network cards with SR-IOV. > > For the network cards like intel 82575, only supports the VMDq >not SR-IOV, I'm thinking since a phy interface can attach more than >one MAC address, and it can split the traffic with different >destination MAC to different VMD queues, we can map a vmd queue to an >virtual interface in different Linux container. > This can help people who uses OS-level virtualization, such as >OpenVZ, Linux Vserver or LXC, to share a network interface. > So is there any code can do this? > >-- >hepeng >ICT > >--------------------------------------------------------------- >--------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint >What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? >Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first >_______________________________________________ >E1000-devel mailing list >E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel >To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit >http://communities.intel.com/community/wired > Hello,
We have worked on a version of VMDq for our 10Gbe driver, ixgbe. However, we have not implemented this in igb because we feel it would not provide enough perfromance improvement to justify it. Thanks, Carolyn Carolyn Wyborny Linux Development LAN Access Division Intel Corporation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
