netdev - SRIOV switchdev mode BoF minutes

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Date:   Sun, 12 Nov 2017 21:49:41 +0200
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@...el.com>,
        Andy Gospodarek <gospo@...adcom.com>,
        Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
        Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        Rony Efraim <ronye@...lanox.com>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: SRIOV switchdev mode BoF minutes

Hi Dave and all,

During and after the BoF on SRIOV switchdev mode, we came into a
consensus among the developers from four different HW vendors (CC
audience) that a correct thing to do would be to disallow any new
extensions to the legacy mode.

The idea is to put focus on the new mode and not add new UAPIs and
kernel code which was turned to be a wrong design which does not allow
for properly offloading a kernel switching SW model to e-switch HW.

We also had a good session the day after regarding alignment for the
representation model of the uplink (physical port) and PF/s.

The VF representor netdevs  exist for all drivers that support the new
mode but the representation for the uplink and PF wasn't the same for
all. The decision was to represent the uplink and PFs vports in the
same manner done for VFs, using rep netdevs. This alignment would
provide a more strict and clear view of the kernel model for e-switch
to users and upper layer control plane SW.

Or.