On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:22:33 +0000, Parav Pandit wrote: >>>>>>2. flavour should not be vf/pf, flavour should be hostport, switchport. >>> >Because switch is flat and agnostic of pf/vf/mdev. >>>>> >>>>> Not sure. It's good to have this kind of visibility. >>>>> >>>> port can have label/attribute indicating that this belong to VF-1 or >>>> mdev as long as you are agreeing to have mdev attribute on host port. >>>> (and not ask for abstracting it, because mdev is well defined kernel >>>> object). >>> >>> Why mdev cannot be another flavour? >>> >> >> hostport is of type pf/vf/mdev connected to some switchport. >> >> So proposal is to have, >> port flavour = hostport/switchport >> port type/label = pf/vf/mdev >> > Instead of having two attributes per port, how about having, > port flavour= physical/cpu/dsa/pf/vf/mdev/switchport. > > physical and pf has some overlapping definitions.
What "overlapping definitions" do physical and PF have? Sounds like you're referring to limitations of Mellanox HW.
