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From: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] ethtool: Add actual port speed reporting
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 09:02:49 +0200
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On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Gal Pressman <galp@mellanox.com> wrote:

> In some cases such as virtual machines and multi functions (SR-IOV), the actual
> bandwidth exposed for each machine is not accurately shown in ethtool.

You mean that if you rate-limit a VF from the host they will be able
to actually query that
and report it to their OS?