On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:08:31PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > I also want to resurrect your idea of associating > "sriov_vf_msix_count" with the PF instead of the VF. I really like > that idea, and it better reflects the way both mlx5 and NVMe work.
That is a better match for nvme: we can assign resources to VFs with the PF's "VF Enable" set to '0', so configuring VFs without requiring them be enumerated in sysfs is a plus. The VFs would also implicitly be in the "offline" state for that condition and able to accept these requests.
