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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:30:31 -0700 From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com> To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com> Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...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 12/16/20 3:53 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote: > The problem in my case was based on a past experience where east-west > traffic became a problem and it was easily shown that bypassing the > NIC for traffic was significantly faster. If a deployment expects a lot of east-west traffic *within a host* why is it using hardware based isolation like a VF. That is a side effect of a design choice that is remedied by other options.
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