netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 3/4] devlink: Introduce PCI VF port flavour and port attribute

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Date:   Sun, 7 Jul 2019 21:50:55 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Parav Pandit <parav@...lanox.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...lanox.com, saeedm@...lanox.com,
        jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 3/4] devlink: Introduce PCI VF port flavour
 and port attribute

Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 08:23:49PM CEST, parav@...lanox.com wrote:
>In an eswitch, PCI VF may have port which is normally represented using
>a representor netdevice.
>To have better visibility of eswitch port, its association with VF,
>and its representor netdevice, introduce a PCI VF port flavour.
>
>When devlink port flavour is PCI VF, fill up PCI VF attributes of
>the port.
>
>Extend port name creation using PCI PF and VF number scheme on best
>effort basis, so that vendor drivers can skip defining their own scheme.
>
>$ devlink port show
>pci/0000:05:00.0/0: type eth netdev eth0 flavour pcipf pfnum 0
>pci/0000:05:00.0/1: type eth netdev eth1 flavour pcivf pfnum 0 vfnum 0
>pci/0000:05:00.0/2: type eth netdev eth2 flavour pcivf pfnum 0 vfnum 1
>
>Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@...lanox.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>