On 12/18/20 5:55 PM, Xueming Li wrote: > SubFunction [1] is a portion of the PCI device, a SF netdev has its own > dedicated queues(txq, rxq). A SF netdev supports eswitch representation > offload similar to existing PF and VF representors. A SF shares PCI > level resources with other SFs and/or with its parent PCI function. > > >From SmartNIC perspective, when PCI device is shared for multi-host, > representors for host controller and host PF is required. > > This patch set introduces new representor types in addtion to existing > VF representor. Syntax: > > [[c#]pf#]vf#: VF port representor/s from controller/pf > [[c#]pf#]sf#: SF port representor/s from controller/pf > #: VF representor - for backwards compatibility > > "#" is number instance, list or range, valid examples: > 1, [1,3,5], [0-3], [0,2-4,6] > > For flexibility, this patch also introduces new netdev capability > to indicate the capability to support new representor types.
Many thanks for sharing the patchset. Looks very interesting. I've already sent my comments and questions for individual patches. > [1]: > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201112192424.2742-1-pa...@nvidia.com/ [snip]
