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authorDapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>2026-09-17 09:52:33 +0800
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DMR introduces Offmodule Response events in place of the legacy Offcore Response events, but it still exposes the inherited offcore_rsp PMU attribute for programming the corresponding MSR data. Rename the DMR PMU attribute to offmodule_rsp so the sysfs interface matches the underlying event name and avoids user & tooling confusion. Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260917015234.981153-12-dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com
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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``