From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
"Mark Bloch" <mbloch@nvidia.com>,
Akiva Goldberger <agoldberger@nvidia.com>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>,
Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] net/mlx5: Prepare eswitch infrastructure for satellite PF support
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 16:16:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260514161649.7a59a547@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <639580c8-f93f-4945-acfa-ff116b841f6a@nvidia.com>
On Thu, 14 May 2026 10:56:26 +0300 Moshe Shemesh wrote:
> Satellite PF is another type of Physical Function, its role and
> privileges are similar to the host PF, but unlike host PF the Satellite
> PF is on the DPU and not on another host. So it's kind of "Satellite"
> for the ECPF which is also on the DPU.
Do you genuinely think these 2 sentences explain anything?
Maybe it's just me. If anyone reading this thinks Moshe's explanation
clarifies things - please speak up..
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-14 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-10 5:34 [PATCH net-next 0/8] net/mlx5: Prepare eswitch infrastructure for satellite PF support Tariq Toukan
2026-05-10 5:34 ` [PATCH net-next 1/8] net/mlx5: Use helper to parse host PF info Tariq Toukan
2026-05-14 19:19 ` Simon Horman
2026-05-10 5:34 ` [PATCH net-next 2/8] net/mlx5: Use v1 response layout for query_esw_functions Tariq Toukan
2026-05-14 19:18 ` Simon Horman
2026-05-10 5:34 ` [PATCH net-next 3/8] net/mlx5: Use mlx5_eswitch_is_vf_vport() for IPsec VF checks Tariq Toukan
2026-05-10 5:34 ` [PATCH net-next 4/8] net/mlx5: Switch vport HCA cap helpers to kvzalloc Tariq Toukan
2026-05-10 5:34 ` [PATCH net-next 5/8] net/mlx5: Add mlx5_vport_set_other_func_general_cap macro Tariq Toukan
2026-05-10 5:34 ` [PATCH net-next 6/8] net/mlx5: Refactor mlx5_set_msix_vec_count() SET_HCA_CAP Tariq Toukan
2026-05-10 5:34 ` [PATCH net-next 7/8] net/mlx5: Use vport helper for IPsec eswitch set caps Tariq Toukan
2026-05-10 5:34 ` [PATCH net-next 8/8] net/mlx5: Generalize enable/disable HCA for any PF vport Tariq Toukan
2026-05-14 2:25 ` [PATCH net-next 0/8] net/mlx5: Prepare eswitch infrastructure for satellite PF support Jakub Kicinski
2026-05-14 7:56 ` Moshe Shemesh
2026-05-14 9:53 ` Paolo Abeni
2026-05-14 9:59 ` Paolo Abeni
2026-05-14 23:16 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
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