> -----Original Message----- > From: Jakub Kicinski <k...@kernel.org> > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 07:04 > To: Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com> > Cc: Venkataramanan, Anirudh <anirudh.venkatarama...@intel.com>; Wang, Haiyue > <haiyue.w...@intel.com>; > da...@davemloft.net; nhor...@redhat.com; sassm...@redhat.com; Bowers, AndrewX > <andrewx.bow...@intel.com>; Kirsher, Jeffrey T <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com>; > netdev@vger.kernel.org; > Nguyen, Anthony L <anthony.l.ngu...@intel.com>; Lu, Nannan > <nannan...@intel.com> > Subject: Re: [net-next 1/5] ice: add the virtchnl handler for AdminQ command >
> In this case, I'm guessing, Intel can reuse RTE flow -> AQ code written > to run on PFs on the special VF. > > This community has selected switchdev + flower for programming flows. > I believe implementing flower offloads would solve your use case, and > at the same time be most beneficial to the netdev community. Jakub, Thanks, I deep into the switchdev, it is kernel software bridge for hardware offload, and each port is registered with register_netdev. So this solution is not suitable for current case: VF can be assigned to VMs. BR, Haiyue
