Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when SRIOV is enabled

2010-05-25 Thread Rose, Gregory V
>-Original Message- >From: Shirley Ma [mailto:mashi...@us.ibm.com] >Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 9:51 AM >To: Rose, Gregory V >Cc: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; da...@davemloft.net; k...@vger.kernel.org; >net...@vger.kernel.org; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: RE: ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF w

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when SRIOV is enabled

2010-05-25 Thread Shirley Ma
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 08:57 -0700, Rose, Gregory V wrote: > Just use ifconfig and vconfig utilities to set the MAC and VLAN for > each VF. There shouldn't be any need for secondary addresses because > they're not like physical devices where each VF has a pre-programmed > HW MAC address. The initi

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when SRIOV is enabled

2010-05-25 Thread Rose, Gregory V
>-Original Message- >From: Shirley Ma [mailto:mashi...@us.ibm.com] >Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 2:37 AM >To: Rose, Gregory V >Cc: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; da...@davemloft.net; k...@vger.kernel.org; >net...@vger.kernel.org; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: RE: ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF w

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when SRIOV is enabled

2010-05-25 Thread Shirley Ma
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 10:54 -0700, Rose, Gregory V wrote: > We look forward to it and will be happy to provide feedback. I have submitted the patch to make macvlan on PF works when SRIOV is enabled. > One thing you can do is allocate VFs and then load the VF driver in > your host domain and then a

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when SRIOV is enabled

2010-05-24 Thread Rose, Gregory V
>-Original Message- >From: Shirley Ma [mailto:mashi...@us.ibm.com] >Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 10:09 AM >To: Rose, Gregory V >Cc: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; da...@davemloft.net; k...@vger.kernel.org; >net...@vger.kernel.org; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: RE: ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF w

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when SRIOV is enabled

2010-05-24 Thread Shirley Ma
Hello Greg, Thanks for your prompt response. On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 10:53 -0700, Rose, Gregory V wrote: > As of 2.6.34 the ixgbe driver does not support multiple queues for > macvlan. > Support for multiple queues for macvlan will come in a subsequent > release. When it might happen? I will doubl

Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when SRIOV is enabled

2010-05-22 Thread Rose, Gregory V
>-Original Message- >From: netdev-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-ow...@vger.kernel.org] >On Behalf Of Shirley Ma >Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 1:31 PM >To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T >Cc: da...@davemloft.net; k...@vger.kernel.org; net...@vger.kernel.org; >e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subj