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- .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
- ===============
- NIC SR-IOV APIs
- ===============
- Modern NICs are strongly encouraged to focus on implementing the ``switchdev``
- model (see :ref:`switchdev`) to configure forwarding and security of SR-IOV
- functionality.
- Legacy API
- ==========
- The old SR-IOV API is implemented in ``rtnetlink`` Netlink family as part of
- the ``RTM_GETLINK`` and ``RTM_SETLINK`` commands. On the driver side
- it consists of a number of ``ndo_set_vf_*`` and ``ndo_get_vf_*`` callbacks.
- Since the legacy APIs do not integrate well with the rest of the stack
- the API is considered frozen; no new functionality or extensions
- will be accepted. New drivers should not implement the uncommon callbacks;
- namely the following callbacks are off limits:
- - ``ndo_get_vf_port``
- - ``ndo_set_vf_port``
- - ``ndo_set_vf_rss_query_en``
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