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From: "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
Subject: Re: SRIOV switchdev mode BoF minutes
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On 4/16/2018 5:39 AM, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 09:01:16AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 2:03 AM, Samudrala, Sridhar
>> <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I meant between PFs on 2 compute nodes.
>> If the PF serves as uplink rep, it functions as  a switch port -- applications
>> don't run on switch ports. One way to get apps to run on the host in switchdev
>> mode is probe one of the VFs there.
>>
>>
>>
So once a pci device is configured in 'switchdev' mode,  only port representor netdevs are
seen on the host, no more PF netdev.

Are you going to expose another way to change sriov_num_vfs when the device is in
'switchdev' mode OR do we need to switch to 'legacy' mode to increase/decrease the number of
VFs?

Even in switchdev mode, i guess it will be possible for host apps to use the IP configured
on the uplink rep to talk externally.

In case of multiple uplinks, are you exposing one uplink-rep netdev per uplink?