On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 12:25:18PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > 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?) Hi Jakub, I posted a fix from Parav, https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201213120641.216032-1-leon@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u Thanks
