On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:22:12AM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote: > Also as far as the patch count complaints I have seen in a few threads > I would be fine with splitting things up so that the devlink and aux > device creation get handled in one set, and then we work out the > details of mlx5 attaching to the devices and spawning of the SF > netdevs in another since that seems to be where the debate is. It doesn't work like that. The aux device creates a mlx5_core and every mlx5_core can run mlx5_en. This really isn't the series to raise this feature request. Adding an optional short cut path to VF/SF is something that can be done later if up to date benchmarks show it has value. There is no blocker in this model to doing that. Jason
