Re: [net-next v3 00/14] Add mlx5 subfunction support

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On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 22:12:11 -0800 Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> Hi Dave, Jakub, Jason,
> 
> This series form Parav was the theme of this mlx5 release cycle,
> we've been waiting anxiously for the auxbus infrastructure to make it into
> the kernel, and now as the auxbus is in and all the stars are aligned, I
> can finally submit this V2 of the devlink and mlx5 subfunction support.
> 
> Subfunctions came to solve the scaling issue of virtualization
> and switchdev environments, where SRIOV failed to deliver and users ran
> out of VFs very quickly as SRIOV demands huge amount of physical resources
> in both of the servers and the NIC.
> 
> Subfunction provide the same functionality as SRIOV but in a very
> lightweight manner, please see the thorough and detailed
> documentation from Parav below, in the commit messages and the
> Networking documentation patches at the end of this series.
> 
> Sending V2/V3 as a continuation to V1 that was sent Last month [0],
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20201112192424.2742-1-parav@xxxxxxxxxx/

This adds more and more instances of the 32 bit build warning.

The warning was also reported separately on netdev after the recent
mlx5-next pull.

Please address that first (or did you already do and I missed it
somehow?)



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