Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 07:04:50PM CET, jakub.kicin...@netronome.com wrote: >PCI endpoint corresponds to a PCI device, but such device >can have one more more logical device ports associated with it. >We need a way to distinguish those. Add a PCI subport in the >dumps and print the info in phys_port_name appropriately. > >This is not equivalent to port splitting, there is no split >group. It's just a way of representing multiple netdevs on >a single PCI function. > >Note that the quality of being multiport pertains only to >the PCI function itself. A PF having multiple netdevs does >not mean that its VFs will also have multiple, or that VFs >are associated with any particular port of a multiport VF. > >Example (bus 05 device has subports, bus 82 has only one port per >function):
How do you plan to added/remove these subports?