Re: [PATCH mlx5-next v7 0/4] Dynamically assign MSI-X vectors count

Leon Romanovsky
2021-03-12T18:35:34Z

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 01:03:19PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 08:59:38AM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>
> > Lastly by splitting out the onlining step you can avoid potentially
> > releasing a broken VF to be reserved if there is some sort of
> > unrecoverable error between steps 2 and 3.
>
> If the PF FW gets in a state that it can't respond to a trivial
> command like this then *every* VF is broken. It not a useful scenario
> to focus on.

Right, many VF initial configurations are done through PF. It MUST work.

Thanks

>
> Jason