From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6102A3F076E; Fri, 15 May 2026 22:41:43 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1778884903; cv=none; b=ccw+uJrxbenlB32WmhmZ6dp/OMzSPFa40U128aN+6JJKvPXmdeG2FsOIevaE8kvKnMv4aqsK8aPyeZL0DHCL/2pTgmKjTwbR7SrlKxQg17BnVz2/YQf3QLwHdNyITC0wy9FIuYwLvprczQQ8C713gRGUJDzpQPOBSyxojCtCBKU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1778884903; c=relaxed/simple; bh=5DWLXzgfr2ZE3/FhL345QIxYPUXZLODTfxkYRqqzhQQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=o9Aeq+7xYaqG1PSXbJkfTJyKRL7+nMbSOBSkfzYFoQnIewrVdMArOn6SmGmFBX6R5BMyu+PCZV6iOvmCCMQSKjmSZRk7nHkUIa+JE4zOHy2mpSyd3BwonY0mpegHEyZXndCE9GEZ2USWmyd1+iZ/CUndoYHparzSUzK8+x/qJfQ= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=Ls6ka9XG; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="Ls6ka9XG" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2AD5DC2BCB0; Fri, 15 May 2026 22:41:42 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1778884903; bh=5DWLXzgfr2ZE3/FhL345QIxYPUXZLODTfxkYRqqzhQQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=Ls6ka9XG7FQvigNkAPMxAwKSR9SOFzNFsFLrEhbI/JuCmttNr5XkmTMdARgCG0JUD TavVHNWb2Rb73wfO5lnBW9STbh5p0c7FxjcTwnsOKjVb3QZgply2XOFOCz6IOZY+BM PgNFKnJOCve9ttWL5XHJB8nebfOwKUfqfrQpUj3WtxT6EWCsHDrgwH6YezClP71xcd xlYE/C6i8nZaNsQFdXFdeaPGzsxR8jfkOX+Fg7RpnK1dfZi1wqogYZu7YVmy8C/4MJ 0d0mjWuvIxxsCQYlu+qVLl1CVoSYo2QCL5O3Nue0HM16AMIbJbhgiYKIr/9uFyiRz3 3fy4uOkXNCuiQ== Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 15:41:41 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Moshe Shemesh Cc: Tariq Toukan , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Saeed Mahameed , "Leon Romanovsky" , Mark Bloch , "Akiva Goldberger" , , , , Gal Pressman , Dragos Tatulea Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] net/mlx5: Prepare eswitch infrastructure for satellite PF support Message-ID: <20260515154141.17645943@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20260510053448.326823-1-tariqt@nvidia.com> <20260513192539.7fd96592@kernel.org> <639580c8-f93f-4945-acfa-ff116b841f6a@nvidia.com> <20260514161649.7a59a547@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 15 May 2026 12:36:50 +0300 Moshe Shemesh wrote: > Now we have a new Smartnic configuration that adds another physical > function, on the DPU, that is not eswitch manager and not page manager. > The new PF can have its own SFs and the customer can passthrough this > Satellite PF to a VM on the DPU and give it to a user that should not > have access to the ECPF privileged function. > As will be shown in the next patchset, the ECPF handles the Satellite PF > and the Host PF in a similar way, using the same management framework. Makes sense! Please respin with this in the cover letter and the clarification in patch 2. Thanks!