Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [net-next PATCH v2 2/6] i40e: Introduce VF Port Representator(VFPR) netdevs.

2017-01-05 Thread Samudrala, Sridhar
On 1/5/2017 1:46 PM, Jeff Kirsher wrote: On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 10:07 -0800, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: VF Port Representator netdevs are created for each VF if the switch mode is set to 'switchdev'. These netdevs can be used to control and configure VFs from PFs namespace. They enable exposing

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [net-next PATCH v2 2/6] i40e: Introduce VF Port Representator(VFPR) netdevs.

2017-01-05 Thread Jeff Kirsher
On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 10:07 -0800, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: > VF Port Representator netdevs are created for each VF if the switch mode > is set to 'switchdev'. These netdevs can be used to control and configure > VFs from PFs namespace. They enable exposing VF statistics, configure and > monitor

Re: [net-next PATCH v2 2/6] i40e: Introduce VF Port Representator(VFPR) netdevs.

2017-01-05 Thread Jiri Pirko
Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 07:07:50PM CET, sridhar.samudr...@intel.com wrote: >VF Port Representator netdevs are created for each VF if the switch mode >is set to 'switchdev'. These netdevs can be used to control and configure >VFs from PFs namespace. They enable exposing VF statistics, configure and

[net-next PATCH v2 2/6] i40e: Introduce VF Port Representator(VFPR) netdevs.

2017-01-03 Thread Sridhar Samudrala
VF Port Representator netdevs are created for each VF if the switch mode is set to 'switchdev'. These netdevs can be used to control and configure VFs from PFs namespace. They enable exposing VF statistics, configure and monitor link state, mtu, filters, fdb/vlan entries etc. of VFs. Broadcast