Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net/mlx5: Introduce devlink param to disable SF aux dev probe

[Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>]

Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 06:23:41AM CET, kuba@kernel.org wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 19:14:02 +0200 Moshe Shemesh wrote:
>> $ devlink dev param set pci/0000:08:00.0 name enable_sfs_aux_devs \
>>               value false cmode runtime
>> 
>> Create SF:
>> $ devlink port add pci/0000:08:00.0 flavour pcisf pfnum 0 sfnum 11
>> $ devlink port function set pci/0000:08:00.0/32768 \
>>                hw_addr 00:00:00:00:00:11 state active
>> 
>> Now depending on the use case, the user can enable specific auxiliary
>> device(s). For example:
>> 
>> $ devlink dev param set auxiliary/mlx5_core.sf.1 \
>>               name enable_vnet value true cmde driverinit
>> 
>> Afterwards, user needs to reload the SF in order for the SF to come up
>> with the specific configuration:
>> 
>> $ devlink dev reload auxiliary/mlx5_core.sf.1
>
>If the user just wants vnet why not add an API which tells the driver
>which functionality the user wants when the "port" is "spawned"?

It's a different user. One works with the eswitch and creates the port
function. The other one takes the created instance and works with it.
Note that it may be on a different host.