[E1000-devel] flow control in VF

2014-06-25 Thread alex nln
Hello list, I see that flow control (FC) is disabled by default in VF (82599 Ethernet Controller Virtual Function). Is it driver limitation or FC is not implemented in hardware? What is the reason for limitation? Thanks ---

[E1000-devel] filtering on mac dst address

2014-12-15 Thread alex nln
Hello, as far as I know it is not possible to filter traffic transmitted from VF according to the *destination* mac address, right? I just wanted to make sure that I did not miss anything. I refer to 82599 controller. Does it work the same for other Intel controllers (e.g 82576)? Thanks

Re: [E1000-devel] filtering on mac dst address

2014-12-15 Thread alex nln
re. You want the VF driver to filter traffic it is transmitting to a certain queue or drop the packet all together? Thanks, -Don Skidmore > -Original Message- > From: alex nln [mailto:alex...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 6:26 AM > To: e1000-devel@lists.sourcef

Re: [E1000-devel] filtering on mac dst address

2014-12-16 Thread alex nln
;m only the owner of the ixgbe and ixgbevf drivers but I don't believe anything would be different for 82576. Thanks, -Don Skidmore > -----Original Message- > From: alex nln [mailto:alex...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 10:11 PM > To: Skidmore, Donald C;

[E1000-devel] [question] xl710 transmit logic "quanta"

2022-11-04 Thread Alex Nln via E1000-devel
Hello list, I am working on a software emulation of a NIC and I am trying to understand how xl710's transmission works. According to the spec transmit scheduler uses round-robin policy and for each Queues Set it does 4KB (Quanta) of work. Spec also mentions in A.2: "Quanta can span multiple