On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Jon Mason <jdmason@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Bjorn, >> One of my team member reported another corner case for SR-IOV. There's >> are two NIC cards in the system driven by the same driver, but one supports >> SR-IOV and the other doesn't. It runs into trouble if "max_vfs" parameter is >> set for the NIC driver. >> --Gerry > > I believe it was decided that a per-pf sysfs interface would be used > to replace the current module parameter that specifies the number of > vf's. This should enable different numbers of vf's for each physical > device. The driver interface that was discussed would introduce new > function pointers for handlers to setup/teardown the vf's. I believe > this will solve your problem once it has been implemented. now we have ixgbe.max_vfs=63 so if change to per pci device (PF), how about having the driver built-in? what kind of kernel parameters will be passed? Thanks Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
