On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:44:35 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote: > > Why would there still be PF instances? I'm not suggesting that you > > create a hierarchy of instances. > > I'm not sure how you imagine getting rid of them. One PCI PF > instantiates one devlink now. There are lots of configuration (e.g. params) > that is per-PF. You need this instance for that, how else would you do > per-PF things on shared ASIC instance? There are per-PF ports, right? > Creating SFs is per-PF operation for example. I didn't to thorough > analysis, but I'm sure there are couple of per-PF things like these. Seems like adding a port attribute to SF creation would be a much smaller extension than adding a layer of objects. > Also not breaking the existing users may be an argument to keep per-PF > instances. We're talking about multi-PF devices only. Besides pretty sure we moved multiple params and health reporters to be per port, so IDK what changed now.
