From: "Saleem, Shiraz" <shiraz.saleem@intel•com>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel•org>,
"Ertman, David M" <david.m.ertman@intel•com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH RESEND net] ice: Correctly deal with PFs that do not support RDMA
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:49:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4bc2664ac89844a79242339f5e971335@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YTsjDsFbBggL2X/8@unreal>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND net] ice: Correctly deal with PFs that do not
> support RDMA
>
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 08:12:23AM -0700, Dave Ertman wrote:
> > There are two cases where the current PF does not support RDMA
> > functionality. The first is if the NVM loaded on the device is set to
> > not support RDMA (common_caps.rdma is false). The second is if the
> > kernel bonding driver has included the current PF in an active link
> > aggregate.
> >
> > When the driver has determined that this PF does not support RDMA,
> > then auxiliary devices should not be created on the auxiliary bus.
>
> This part is wrong, auxiliary devices should always be created, in your case it will
> be one eth device only without extra irdma device.
It is worth considering having an eth aux device/driver but is it a hard-and-fast rule?
In this case, the RDMA-capable PCI network device spawns an auxiliary device for RDMA
and the core driver is a network driver.
>
> Your "bug" is that you mixed auxiliary bus devices with "regular" ones and created
> eth device not as auxiliary one. This is why you are calling to auxiliary_device_init()
> for RDMA only and fallback to non-auxiliary mode.
It's a design choice on how you carve out function(s) off your PCI core device to be
managed by auxiliary driver(s) and not a bug.
Shiraz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-13 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-09 15:12 [PATCH RESEND net] ice: Correctly deal with PFs that do not support RDMA Dave Ertman
2021-09-10 9:19 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-09-13 15:49 ` Saleem, Shiraz [this message]
2021-09-13 16:07 ` Ertman, David M
2021-09-14 3:16 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-09-14 3:10 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-09-24 14:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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