[Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue v6 PATCH 2/7] i40e: Introduce Port Representor netdevs and switchdev mode.

Or Gerlitz gerlitz.or at gmail.com
Thu Mar 30 09:17:29 UTC 2017


On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Sridhar Samudrala
<sridhar.samudrala at intel.com> wrote:
> Port Representator netdevs are created for each PF and VF if the switch
> mode is set to 'switchdev'. These netdevs can be used to control and
> configure VFs and PFs when they are moved to a different namespace.
> They enable exposing statistics, configure and monitor link state, mtu,
> filters,fdb/vlan entries etc.


What netdev represents the uplink (wire port) in your impl?


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