Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC net-next 1/2] devlink: expose port function commands to assign VFs to multiple netdevs

From: Saeed Mahameed <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2023 16:55:12 -0800

On 08 Feb 15:35, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 13:37:08 -0800 Saeed Mahameed wrote:
>> I don't understand the difference between the two modes,
>> 1) "where VFs are associated with physical ports"
>> 2) "another mode where all VFs are associated with one physical port"
>>
>> anyway here how it works for ConnectX devices, and i think the model should
>> be generalized to others as it simplifies the user life in my opinion.
>
>I'm guessing the version of the NFP Simon posted this for behaves
>much like CX3 / mlx4. One PF, multiple Ethernet ports.

Then the question is, can they do PF per port and avoid such complex APIs ?