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

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Message-ID: <E113D394D7C5DB4F8FF691FA7EE9DB44384E3CAC3F@MTLMAIL.mtl.com>
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

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