On 5/27/2021 2:37 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 shares PCI level resources with other > SFs and/or with its parent PCI function. Auxiliary bus is the > fundamental of SF. > > This patch set introduces SubFunction support for mlx5 PMD driver > including class net, regex, vdpa and compress. >
There is already an mdev patch, originated from long ago. Aren't subfunctions presented as mdev device? If so can't we use mdev for it?