linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4 linux-next 12/12] vdpa/mlx5: Add VDPA driver for supported mlx5 devices

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Message-ID: <2e243137-5ada-1161-ed27-62804f24752b@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 5 Aug 2020 16:09:43 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.com>, mst@...hat.com,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     shahafs@...lanox.com, saeedm@...lanox.com, parav@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 linux-next 12/12] vdpa/mlx5: Add VDPA driver for
 supported mlx5 devices


On 2020/8/5 上午12:20, Eli Cohen wrote:
> Add a front end VDPA driver that registers in the VDPA bus and provides
> networking to a guest. The VDPA driver creates the necessary resources
> on the VF it is driving such that data path will be offloaded.
>
> Notifications are being communicated through the driver.
>
> Currently, only VFs are supported. In subsequent patches we will have
> devlink support to control which VF is used for VDPA and which function
> is used for regular networking.
>
> Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit<parav@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen<eli@...lanox.com>
> ---


Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>