On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2018 20:19:54 -0700, Michael Chan wrote: >> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Samudrala, Sridhar wrote: >> > Isn't ndo_set_vf_xxx() considered a legacy interface and not planned to be >> > extended? > > +1 it's painful to see this feature being added to the legacy > API :( Another duplicated configuration knob. > >> 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. > > Ethtool channel API may be overdue a rewrite in devlink anyway, but I > feel like implementing switchdev mode and rewriting features in devlink > may be too much to ask.
Totally agreed. And switchdev mode doesn't seem to be that widely used at the moment. Do you have other suggestions besides NDO?
