From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chi Song <Song.Chi@microsoft.com>,
KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
"wei.liu@kernel.org" <wei.liu@kernel.org>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next] net: hyperv: Add attributes to show RX/TX indirection table
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:33:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM5PR2101MB09345765A15DC9F03AADB7B6CA7C0@DM5PR2101MB0934.namprd21.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200717101523.6573061b@hermes.lan>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2020 1:15 PM
> To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>; Chi Song
> <Song.Chi@microsoft.com>; KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>; Stephen
> Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>; wei.liu@kernel.org;
> kuba@kernel.org; ast@kernel.org; daniel@iogearbox.net; kafai@fb.com;
> songliubraving@fb.com; yhs@fb.com; andriin@fb.com;
> john.fastabend@gmail.com; kpsingh@chromium.org; linux-
> hyperv@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: hyperv: Add attributes to show RX/TX
> indirection table
>
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:55:35 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> > Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 16:18:11 +0000
> >
> > > Also in some minimal installation, "ethtool" may not always be
> > > installed.
> >
> > This is never an argument against using the most well suited API for
> > exporting information to the user.
> >
> > You can write "minimal" tools that just perform the ethtool netlink
> > operations you require for information retrieval, you don't have to
> > have the ethtool utility installed.
>
> Would it be better in the long term to make the transmit indirection table
> available under the new rt_netlink based API's for ethtool?
>
> I can imagine that other hardware or hypervisors might have the same kind of
> transmit mapping.
I think it should be a good long term plan, if going forward more NIC
drivers start to use TX table in the future.
Thanks,
- Haiyang
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-17 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-17 6:04 [PATCH net-next] net: hyperv: Add attributes to show RX/TX indirection table Chi Song
2020-07-17 10:43 ` Wei Liu
2020-07-17 15:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-07-17 16:18 ` Haiyang Zhang
2020-07-17 16:55 ` David Miller
2020-07-17 16:59 ` Haiyang Zhang
2020-07-17 17:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-07-17 17:33 ` Haiyang Zhang [this message]
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