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

Jiri Pirko
2024-08-02T06:56:57Z

Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 07:11:48AM CEST, michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com wrote:
>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.

Why the changelog can't be here too? It's still the same patchset, isn't
it?

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