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Message-ID: <20240215212353.3d6d17c4@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:23:53 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Saeed Mahameed
 <saeedm@...dia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Tariq Toukan
 <tariqt@...dia.com>, Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>, Leon Romanovsky
 <leonro@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next V3 15/15] Documentation: networking: Add description
 for multi-pf netdev

On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:08:14 -0800 Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> +The advanced Multi-PF NIC technology enables several CPUs within a multi-socket server to

There are multiple devlink instances, right?
In that case we should call out that there may be more than one.

> +Currently the sysfs is kept untouched, letting the netdev sysfs point to its primary PF.
> +Enhancing sysfs to reflect the actual topology is to be discussed and contributed separately.

I don't anticipate it to be particularly hard, let's not merge
half-baked code and force users to grow workarounds that are hard 
to remove.

Also could you add examples of how the queue and napis look when listed
via the netdev genl on these devices?

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