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

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Date:   Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:08:48 +0200
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...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 Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 12:25:18PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 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?)

Hi Jakub,

I posted a fix from Parav,
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201213120641.216032-1-leon@kernel.org/T/#u

Thanks