From: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>,
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>,
Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>,
Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>,
Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>,
Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Fei Qin <fei.qin@corigine.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, oss-drivers@corigine.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC net-next 1/2] devlink: expose port function commands to assign VFs to multiple netdevs
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2023 16:55:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+REcLbT6LYLJS7U@x130> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230208153552.4be414f6@kernel.org>
On 08 Feb 15:35, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 13:37:08 -0800 Saeed Mahameed wrote:
>> I don't understand the difference between the two modes,
>> 1) "where VFs are associated with physical ports"
>> 2) "another mode where all VFs are associated with one physical port"
>>
>> anyway here how it works for ConnectX devices, and i think the model should
>> be generalized to others as it simplifies the user life in my opinion.
>
>I'm guessing the version of the NFP Simon posted this for behaves
>much like CX3 / mlx4. One PF, multiple Ethernet ports.
Then the question is, can they do PF per port and avoid such complex APIs ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-09 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-06 15:36 [PATCH/RFC net-next 0/2] devlink: expose port function commands to assign VFs to multiple devlink Simon Horman
2023-02-06 15:36 ` [PATCH/RFC net-next 1/2] devlink: expose port function commands to assign VFs to multiple netdevs Simon Horman
2023-02-07 2:42 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-02-08 10:38 ` Simon Horman
2023-02-08 11:21 ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-02-08 11:36 ` Simon Horman
2023-02-08 11:41 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-02-08 12:09 ` Simon Horman
2023-02-08 11:53 ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-02-08 12:05 ` Simon Horman
2023-02-08 21:37 ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-02-08 23:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-02-09 0:55 ` Saeed Mahameed [this message]
2023-02-09 2:20 ` Yinjun Zhang
2023-02-09 15:15 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-02-10 2:14 ` Yinjun Zhang
2023-02-10 3:30 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-02-10 9:45 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-02-08 11:40 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-02-08 12:07 ` Simon Horman
2023-02-08 12:34 ` Jiri Pirko
2023-02-08 12:37 ` Simon Horman
2023-02-08 23:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-02-06 15:36 ` [PATCH/RFC net-next 2/2] nfp: add support for assigning VFs to different physical ports Simon Horman
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