From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Jiawei Wang <jiaweiw@nvidia.com>
Cc: <suanmingm@nvidia.com>, <xuemingl@nvidia.com>,
<viacheslavo@nvidia.com>, <dev@dpdk.org>, <rasland@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: support no host PF configuration
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 11:09:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241007110937.14ca3480@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231011064153.46486-1-jiaweiw@nvidia.com>
On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 09:41:53 +0300
Jiawei Wang <jiaweiw@nvidia.com> wrote:
> From: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
>
> In BlueField, a new firmware configuration option NUM_OF_PF=0 disables
> PF on the x86 host side, no HPF on the ARM side, and the only RDMA port
> on the ARM side is the bonding device(PF0). A device probe with devargs
> of representor=pf[0-1]vf[...] will probe PF0 and PF1 one by one, and
> it's possible that PF1 device scan results in no switch ports.
>
> This patch supports the new configuration by allowing a PF scan with
> empty switch ports.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiawei Wang <jiaweiw@nvidia.com>
Not sure why it never got merged but looks fine.
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-07 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-11 6:41 [PATCH] net/mlx5: support no host PF configuration Jiawei Wang
2024-09-27 7:11 ` Bing Zhao
2024-10-28 9:35 ` Dariusz Sosnowski
2024-10-07 18:09 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2024-10-28 13:12 ` Raslan Darawsheh
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