On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 10:00:19AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 10:57:38AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 08:29:49PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > > > I think I misunderstood Greg's subdirectory comment. We already have > > > directories like this: > > > > Yes, IIRC, Greg's remark applies if you have to start creating > > directories with manual kobjects. > > > > > and aspm_ctrl_attr_group (for "link") is nicely done with static > > > attributes. So I think we could do something like this: > > > > > > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/ # PF directory > > > sriov/ # SR-IOV related stuff > > > vf_total_msix > > > vf_msix_count_BB:DD.F # includes bus/dev/fn of first VF > > > ... > > > vf_msix_count_BB:DD.F # includes bus/dev/fn of last VF > > > > It looks a bit odd that it isn't a subdirectory, but this seems > > reasonable. > > Sorry, I missed your point; you'll have to lay it out more explicitly. > I did intend that "sriov" *is* a subdirectory of the 0000:01:00.0 > directory. The full paths would be: > > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/sriov/vf_total_msix > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/sriov/vf_msix_count_BB:DD.F > ... Sorry, I was meaning what you first proposed: /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/sriov/BB:DD.F/vf_msix_count Which has the extra sub directory to organize the child VFs. Keep in mind there is going to be alot of VFs here, > 1k - so this will be a huge directory. Jason