This series implements querying and setting of the mac address and mtu
device config fields of the vdpa device of type net.
An example of query and set as below.
$ vdpa dev add name bar mgmtdev vdpasim_net mac 00:11:22:33:44:55 mtu 9000
$ vdpa dev config show
bar: mac 00:11:22:33:44:55 link up link_announce false mtu 9000
$ vdpa dev config show -jp
{
"config": {
"bar": {
"mac": "00:11:22:33:44:55",
"link ": "up",
"link_announce ": false,
"mtu": 1500,
}
}
}
patch summary:
patch-1 updates the kernel headers
patch-2 implements the query command
patch-3 implements setting the mac address of vdpa dev config space
patch-4 implements setting the mtu of vdpa dev config space
changelog:
v1->v2:
- addressed comments from David
- added man page
- using get_u16
- using strcmp() instead of matches() for arguments
Parav Pandit (4):
vdpa: Update kernel headers
vdpa: Enable user to query vdpa device config layout
vdpa: Enable user to set mac address of vdpa device
vdpa: Enable user to set mtu of the vdpa device
include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 81 ++++++++++++++
man/man8/vdpa-dev.8 | 42 ++++++++
vdpa/include/uapi/linux/vdpa.h | 7 ++
vdpa/vdpa.c | 184 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
4 files changed, 305 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
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2.26.2
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