Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 05:03:17PM CET, sridhar.samudr...@intel.com wrote: >On 3/13/2019 12:37 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 07:17:04AM CET, sridhar.samudr...@intel.com wrote: >> > >> > On 3/12/2019 7:02 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > > >> > > > > I originally planned to implement sriov orchestration api in devlink >> > > > > too. >> > > > >> > > > Interesting, would you mind elaborating? >> > > >> > > I have to think about it. But something like this: >> > > >> > > After bootup, you see only physical port, PF switch port and PF host leg. >> > >> > Is this after changing the eswitch mode to 'switchdev' >> >> I believe so. For new drivers, this should be default and only option. >> >> >> > >> > > $ devlink port show >> > > pci/0000:05:00.0/0: type eth netdev enp5s0np0 flavour physical switch_id >> > > 00154d130d2 >> > >> > Is this the uplink port representor? >> >> Yes >> >> >> > >> > > pci/0000:05:00.0/1: type eth netdev ??? flavour pci_pf_host >> > > peer pci/0000:05:00.0/10000 >> > >> > I guess this is PF netdev >> >> Yes, port >> >> >> > >> > > pci/0000:05:00.0/10000: type eth netdev enp5s0npf0pf0s0 flavour pci_pf >> > > pf 0 subport 0 >> > > switch_id 00154d130d2f peer pci/0000:05:00.0/1 >> > >> > and this one is PF port representor netdev >> >> Yes, port >> >> >> > >> > > >> > > To create new PF subport under PF 0: >> > > $ devlink dev port add pci/0000:05:00.0 flavour pci_pf pf 0 >> > >> > Can we consider l2-fwd offload macvlan device also as a subport of PF? >> >> What does this have to with with macvlan? Macvlan is a separate soft >> driver. > >ethtool -k <pf> l2-fwd-offload on >ip link add link <pf> type macvlan > >will create a macvlan netdev but it is backed by a set of separate HW queues >and switching is offloaded to HW. This can be considered as a subport. In >i40e, it is a VMDq VSI.
Oh, this one. I think that is abuse of macvlan. We should do the modelling correctly, including visibility of switch ports. > > > >
