netdev - RE: [PATCH 01/25 v2] mlx4_core: identify function as pf or vf

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:21:30 +0200
From:	Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@...lanox.co.il>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
CC:	"linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Liran Liss <liranl@...lanox.co.il>,
	Tziporet Koren <tziporet@...lanox.co.il>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 01/25 v2] mlx4_core: identify function as pf or vf


> I'm a bit confused by these flags.  As far as I can tell, the SRIOV flag will be set if and > only if MASTER is set too... so in other words we might as well just have the MASTER and > > SLAVE flags and not have the SRIOV flag at all.

We could have a situation where we have multiple physical functions, without SRIOV.
In this case one of the functions would be MASTER, but not SRIOV

Yevgeny

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html