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From: Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospodarek@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: SRIOV switchdev mode BoF minutes
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:25:38 -0400
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 09:26:34AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:15:29 -0400, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> > > A similar issue exists on multi-host for PFs, right?  If one of the
> > > hosts is down do we still show their PF repr?  IMHO yes.  
> > 
> > I would agree with that as well.  With today's model the VF reps are
> > created once a PF is put into switchdev mode, but I'm still working out
> > how we want to consider whether or not a PF rep for the other domains is
> > created locally or not and also how one can determine which domain is in
> > control.
> > 
> > Permanent config options (like NVRAM settings) could easily handle which
> > domain is in control, but that still does not mean that PF reps must be
> > created automatically, does it?
> 
> The control domain is tricky.  I'm not sure I understand how you could
> not have a PF rep for remote domains, though.  How do you configure
> switching to the PF netdev if there is no rep?

Yes, for complete control of all traffic using standard Linux APIs a PF
rep is a requirement.