netdev - Re: SRIOV switchdev mode BoF minutes

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Date:   Sun, 15 Apr 2018 09:01:16 +0300
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        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: Re: SRIOV switchdev mode BoF minutes

On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 2:03 AM, Samudrala, Sridhar
<sridhar.samudrala@...el.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.

[...]

> By smartnic env, i guess you are referring to OVS control plane also running
> on the NIC.

correct

> I will look forward to your patches.

FWIW, note that my patches don't bring any newz for you.. I am aligning
mlx5 with what was agreed on netdev, e.g nfp does it (uplink rep and
such) already.