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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 08:50:50 +0200 From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com> To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>, Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, Netdev <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>, "Ertman, David M" <david.m.ertman@...el.com>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@...el.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Subject: Re: [net-next v4 00/15] Add mlx5 subfunction support On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 01:28:05PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:35:20 -0800 Saeed Mahameed wrote: > > > I think the big thing we really should do if we are going to go this > > > route is to look at standardizing what the flavours are that get > > > created by the parent netdevice. Otherwise we are just creating the > > > same mess we had with SRIOV all over again and muddying the waters of > > > mediated devices. > > > > yes in the near future we will be working on auxbus interfaces for > > auto-probing and user flavor selection, this is a must have feature for > > us. > > Can you elaborate? I thought config would be via devlink. Yes, everything continues to be done through devlink. One of the immediate features is an ability to disable/enable creation of specific SF types. For example, if user doesn't want RDMA, the SF RDMA won't be created. Thanks
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