On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 18:14 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:49:54 -0400 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 09:11:20AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > > > It is consistent with the multi-subsystem device sharing model > > we've > > had for ages now. > > > > The physical ethernet port is shared between multiple accelerator > > subsystems. netdev gets its slice of traffic, so does RDMA, iSCSI, > > VDPA, etc. not just a slice of traffic, a whole HW domain. > > Right, devices of other subsystems are fine, I don't care. > But a netdev will be loaded on SF automatically just through the current driver design and modularity, since SF == VF and our netdev is abstract and doesn't know if it runs on a PF/VF/SF .. we literally have to add code to not load a netdev on a SF. why ? :/ > Sorry for not being crystal clear but quite frankly IDK what else can > be expected from me given the submissions have little to no context > and > documentation. This comes up every damn time with the SF patches, I'm > tired of having to ask for a basic workflow. >From how this discussion is going, i think you are right, we need to clarify what we are doing in a more high level simplified and generic documentation to give some initial context, Parav, let's add the missing documentation, we can also add some comments regarding how this is very different from VMDq, but i would like to avoid that, since it is different in almost every way:) ..
