On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:36:07 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote: > >The problem comes from having a devlink instance per function / > >port rather than for the ASIC. Spawn a single instance and the > >problem will go away 🤷️ > > Yeah, we currently have VF devlink ports created under PF devlink instance. > That is aligned with PCI geometry. If we have a single per-ASIC parent > devlink, this does not change and we still need to configure cross > PF devlink instances. Why would there still be PF instances? I'm not suggesting that you create a hierarchy of instances. > The only benefit I see is that we don't need rate domain, but > we can use parent devlink instance lock instead. The locking ordering > might be a bit tricky to fix though.
