On 03/10, Haiyue Wang wrote:
>The DCF (Device Config Function) works at the user PF level, it can't
>access the real PF hardware directly. So it will proxy the PF's AdminQ
>command through DCF's mailbox.

Proxy is a noun, so this sentence is a little bit confusing.
Do you mean DCF will rely on the mailbox to serve as the proxy to pass the
PF's AdminQ command?

Thanks,
Xiaolong

>
>And the DCF is mainly used to control the flow setting of other VFs, so
>it only needs to initialize some core functions about the flow .
>
>Signed-off-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.w...@intel.com>
>---
> drivers/net/ice/Makefile         |   1 +
> drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf.c        |   7 +-
> drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf.h        |   3 +
> drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.c |  10 +-
> drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_ethdev.h |  11 +-
> drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_parent.c | 263 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/ice/meson.build      |   3 +-
> 7 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/net/ice/ice_dcf_parent.c

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