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From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Subject: Re: [rfc 0/4] igb: bandwidth allocation
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:21:23 +1100
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On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:46:50PM -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 16:58, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this series of patches exposes the bandwidth allocation
> > hardware support of the Intel 82576. It does so through
> > a rather hackish sysfs entry. That interface is just intended
> > for testing so that the exposed hardware feature can
> > be exercised. I would like to find a generic way to expose
> > this feature to user-space.
> >
> 
> Thanks Simon.  I have add the 4 patch series to my tree for testing.

Thanks. I wanted to get the code out rather than sitting on it
for lack of a better user-space interface. Although there
is a lot of fluff the actual register twiddling for
bandwidth allocation turned out to be quite simple.