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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:36:09 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/mlx5: Remove max_external_SFs device
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On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 12:38:28PM +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> From: Or Har-Toov <ohartoov@nvidia.com>
> 
> The device-level max_external_SFs resource is redundant now that
> per-port max_SFs resources are registered on each PF port representor.
> Users can look up SF limits per-port directly via 'devlink port show'
> to correlate with controller number and pfnum.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Or Har-Toov <ohartoov@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Shay Drori <shayd@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>