netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/15][pull request] ice: one by one port representors creation

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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:32:35 -0500
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, pabeni@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com,
 wojciech.drewek@...el.com, marcin.szycik@...el.com,
 piotr.raczynski@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/15][pull request] ice: one by one port
 representors creation

On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:14:20 -0800 Tony Nguyen wrote:
> Michal Swiatkowski says:
> 
> Currently ice supports creating port representors only for VFs. For that
> use case they can be created and removed in one step.
> 
> This patchset is refactoring current flow to support port representor
> creation also for subfunctions and SIOV. In this case port representors
> need to be created and removed one by one. Also, they can be added and
> removed while other port representors are running.
> 
> To achieve that we need to change the switchdev configuration flow.
> Three first patches are only cosmetic (renaming, removing not used code).
> Next few ones are preparation for new flow. The most important one
> is "add VF representor one by one". It fully implements new flow.
> 
> New type of port representor (for subfunction) will be introduced in
> follow up patchset.

There's way too much stuff from Intel in the review queue right
now and the fact that some of us are at LPC isn't helping.

Please slow down a bit.