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

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> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2020 5:39 PM
> 
> 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@nvidi
> > > a.com/
> >
> > 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

Hi Jakub,
This patchset is not added the original warning. Warning got added due to a commit [1].
Its not related to subfunction.
It will be fixed regardless of this patchset as posted in [2].

[1] 2a2970891647 ("net/mlx5: Add sample offload hardware bits and structures")
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201213123620.GC5005@unreal/




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