netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next V2 0/7] devlink: add per-port resource support

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Message-ID: <7rmcwov5zbu4blljlnwfzhobmmjsitih3t7w7vabpmkigat6du@erprfflwyiqx>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 10:24:13 +0100
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, 
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>, 
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, 
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, Mark Bloch <mbloch@...dia.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, 
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>, 
	Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...dia.com>, Shay Drori <shayd@...dia.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2 0/7] devlink: add per-port resource support

Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 03:28:26PM +0100, tariqt@...dia.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This series adds devlink per-port resource support.
>See detailed description by Or below [1].
>
>Regards,
>Tariq
>
>[1]
>Currently, devlink resources are only available at the device level.
>However, some resources are inherently per-port, such as the maximum
>number of subfunctions (SFs) that can be created on a specific PF port.
>This limitation prevents user space from obtaining accurate per-port
>capacity information.
>This series adds infrastructure for per-port resources in devlink core
>and implements it in the mlx5 driver to expose the max_SFs resource on
>PF devlink ports.
>
>Patch #1 refactors resource functions to be generic
>Patch #2 adds port-level resource registration functions
>Patch #3 adds port resource netlink command
>Patch #4 registers SF resource on PF port representor in mlx5
>Patch #5 adds port resource registration to netdevsim for testing
>Patch #6 adds selftest for devlink port resources
>Patch #7 adds documentation for port-level resources

Could you add dumpit op for the current devlink resource? I think that
was indented originally. Will help to see the whole code-picture :)

Thanks!