From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D30C433E2 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 20:12:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D542078B for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 20:12:02 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1598904722; bh=oy3YoQA/q5rG/lJeUPWdnZoC+vRpqJ0THREllnTpeJc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=V3R2uIv+90Ei4RmZS1mpJJ8DgEp/H08d6CcvRGG2GUtdHapMOn6ZNJLqJO40gR7BZ N/8leqxkibbXmDYEkoa6M2s0rNvKKL1U6GwrnFPNC9XDg1LW0D9zNYYsh3xbeJu850 X4f5oCSqgZxEmvJkYa6ePT/RI1v8r7hLNJ8ZQALo= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728908AbgHaUMB (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:12:01 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:39590 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726939AbgHaUMA (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:12:00 -0400 Received: from kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com (unknown [163.114.132.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 53E982078B; Mon, 31 Aug 2020 20:12:00 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1598904720; bh=oy3YoQA/q5rG/lJeUPWdnZoC+vRpqJ0THREllnTpeJc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=M7CzP4e2dxkVQhfmX+fe+2nkvGWtps5Fvxwud9NoNSYInAoCcZbZ4UKL+fMRZ6F3r 0iIzcHmrY2WOWMYBmcX7QlgHR15GtVsyTtpG7T4obDyc6GM88SlRB4eFkgmtLdhe93 rloj2E2LkF3FzeKA6vuzo6wYoYZ+3mmPCMzUOItE= Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 13:11:58 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Thomas Falcon Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, drt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com, ljp@linux.vnet.ibm.com, cforno12@linux.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] ibmvnic: Provide documentation for ACL sysfs files Message-ID: <20200831131158.03ac2d86@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1598893093-14280-1-git-send-email-tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com> <1598893093-14280-6-git-send-email-tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com> <20200831122653.5bdef2f4@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 14:54:06 -0500 Thomas Falcon wrote: > On 8/31/20 2:26 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 11:58:13 -0500 Thomas Falcon wrote: > >> Provide documentation for ibmvnic device Access Control List > >> files. > > What API is used to set those parameters in the first place? > > > These parameters are specified in the system's IBM Hardware Management > Console (HMC) when the VNIC device is create. The new attributes are visible in the "guest" OS, correct? This seems similar to normal SR-IOV operation, but I've not heard of use cases for them VM to know what its pvid is. Could you elaborate?