Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/15][pull request] ice: support devlink subfunction

Michal Swiatkowski
2024-08-02T05:13:30Z

On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 04:32:56PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 12:10:11AM CEST, anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com wrote:
> >Michal Swiatkowski says:
> >
> >Currently ice driver does not allow creating more than one networking
> >device per physical function. The only way to have more hardware backed
> >netdev is to use SR-IOV.
> >
> >Following patchset adds support for devlink port API. For each new
> >pcisf type port, driver allocates new VSI, configures all resources
> >needed, including dynamically MSIX vectors, program rules and registers
> >new netdev.
> >
> >This series supports only one Tx/Rx queue pair per subfunction.
> >
> >Example commands:
> >devlink port add pci/0000:31:00.1 flavour pcisf pfnum 1 sfnum 1000
> >devlink port function set pci/0000:31:00.1/1 hw_addr 00:00:00:00:03:14
> >devlink port function set pci/0000:31:00.1/1 state active
> >devlink port function del pci/0000:31:00.1/1
> >
> >Make the port representor and eswitch code generic to support
> >subfunction representor type.
> >
> >VSI configuration is slightly different between VF and SF. It needs to
> >be reflected in the code.
> >---
> >v2:
> >- Add more recipients
> >
> >v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240729223431.681842-1-anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com/
>
> I'm confused a bit. This is certainly not v2. I replied to couple
> versions before. There is no changelog. Hard to track changes :/

You can see all changes here:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240606112503.1939759-1-michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com/

This is pull request from Tony, no changes between it and version from
iwl.