netdev - Re: [net-next v3 00/14] Add mlx5 subfunction support

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Date:   Sat, 12 Dec 2020 12:25:18 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
        Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
        david.m.ertman@...el.com, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
        kiran.patil@...el.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [net-next v3 00/14] Add mlx5 subfunction support

On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 22:12:11 -0800 Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> Hi Dave, Jakub, Jason,
> 
> This series form Parav was the theme of this mlx5 release cycle,
> we've been waiting anxiously for the auxbus infrastructure to make it into
> the kernel, and now as the auxbus is in and all the stars are aligned, I
> can finally submit this V2 of the devlink and mlx5 subfunction support.
> 
> Subfunctions came to solve the scaling issue of virtualization
> and switchdev environments, where SRIOV failed to deliver and users ran
> out of VFs very quickly as SRIOV demands huge amount of physical resources
> in both of the servers and the NIC.
> 
> Subfunction provide the same functionality as SRIOV but in a very
> lightweight manner, please see the thorough and detailed
> documentation from Parav below, in the commit messages and the
> Networking documentation patches at the end of this series.
> 
> Sending V2/V3 as a continuation to V1 that was sent Last month [0],
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20201112192424.2742-1-parav@nvidia.com/

This adds more and more instances of the 32 bit build warning.

The warning was also reported separately on netdev after the recent
mlx5-next pull.

Please address that first (or did you already do and I missed it
somehow?)