From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
"dledford@redhat.com" <dledford@redhat.com>,
Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
"kuba@kernel.org" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Vu Pham <vuhuong@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 03/13] devlink: Support add and delete devlink port
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:17:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ddfcf07-2d3c-17ac-2db8-4f657506c2fd@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c409964b-3f07-cac9-937c-4062f879cb85@intel.com>
On 11/18/20 5:41 PM, Jacob Keller wrote:
>
>
> On 11/18/2020 11:22 AM, Parav Pandit wrote:
>>
>>
>>> From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 11:33 PM
>>>
>>>
>>> With Connectx-4 Lx for example the netdev can have at most 63 queues
>>> leaving 96 cpu servers a bit short - as an example of the limited number of
>>> queues that a nic can handle (or currently exposes to the OS not sure which).
>>> If I create a subfunction for ethernet traffic, how many queues are allocated
>>> to it by default, is it managed via ethtool like the pf and is there an impact to
>>> the resources used by / available to the primary device?
>>
>> Jason already answered it with details.
>> Thanks a lot Jason.
>>
>> Short answer to ethtool question, yes, ethtool can change num queues for subfunction like PF.
>> Default is same number of queues for subfunction as that of PF in this patchset.
>>
>
> But what is the mechanism for partitioning the global resources of the
> device into each sub function?
>
> Is it just evenly divided into the subfunctions? is there some maximum
> limit per sub function?
>
I hope it is not just evenly divided; it should be user controllable. If
I create a subfunction for say a container's networking, I may want to
only assign 1 Rx and 1 Tx queue pair (or 1 channel depending on
terminology where channel includes Rx, Tx and CQ).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-19 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-12 19:24 [PATCH net-next 00/13] Add mlx5 subfunction support Parav Pandit
2020-11-12 19:24 ` [PATCH net-next 01/13] devlink: Prepare code to fill multiple port function attributes Parav Pandit
2020-11-12 19:24 ` [PATCH net-next 02/13] devlink: Introduce PCI SF port flavour and port attribute Parav Pandit
2020-11-12 19:24 ` [PATCH net-next 03/13] devlink: Support add and delete devlink port Parav Pandit
2020-11-18 16:21 ` David Ahern
2020-11-18 17:02 ` Parav Pandit
2020-11-18 18:03 ` David Ahern
2020-11-18 18:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-18 19:36 ` David Ahern
2020-11-18 20:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-18 19:22 ` Parav Pandit
2020-11-19 0:41 ` Jacob Keller
2020-11-19 1:17 ` David Ahern [this message]
2020-11-19 1:56 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2020-11-19 0:52 ` Jacob Keller
2020-11-12 19:24 ` [PATCH net-next 04/13] devlink: Support get and set state of port function Parav Pandit
2020-11-12 19:24 ` [PATCH net-next 05/13] devlink: Avoid global devlink mutex, use per instance reload lock Parav Pandit
2020-11-12 19:24 ` [PATCH net-next 06/13] devlink: Introduce devlink refcount to reduce scope of global devlink_mutex Parav Pandit
2020-11-12 19:24 ` [PATCH net-next 07/13] net/mlx5: SF, Add auxiliary device support Parav Pandit
2020-12-07 2:48 ` David Ahern
2020-12-07 4:53 ` Parav Pandit
2020-11-12 19:24 ` [PATCH net-next 08/13] net/mlx5: SF, Add auxiliary device driver Parav Pandit
2020-11-12 19:24 ` [PATCH net-next 09/13] net/mlx5: E-switch, Prepare eswitch to handle SF vport Parav Pandit
2020-11-12 19:24 ` [PATCH net-next 10/13] net/mlx5: E-switch, Add eswitch helpers for " Parav Pandit
2020-11-12 19:24 ` [PATCH net-next 11/13] net/mlx5: SF, Add SF configuration hardware commands Parav Pandit
2020-11-12 19:24 ` [PATCH net-next 12/13] net/mlx5: SF, Add port add delete functionality Parav Pandit
2020-11-12 19:24 ` [PATCH net-next 13/13] net/mlx5: SF, Port function state change support Parav Pandit
2020-11-16 22:52 ` [PATCH net-next 00/13] Add mlx5 subfunction support Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-17 0:06 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-11-17 1:58 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-17 4:08 ` Parav Pandit
2020-11-17 17:11 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-17 18:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-19 2:14 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-19 4:35 ` David Ahern
2020-11-19 5:57 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-11-20 1:31 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-25 5:33 ` David Ahern
2020-11-25 6:00 ` Parav Pandit
2020-11-25 14:37 ` David Ahern
2020-11-20 1:29 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-20 17:58 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-11-20 19:04 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2020-11-23 21:51 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-11-24 7:01 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-24 7:05 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-19 6:12 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-11-19 8:25 ` Parav Pandit
2020-11-20 1:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-20 3:34 ` Parav Pandit
2020-11-17 18:50 ` Parav Pandit
2020-11-19 2:23 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-19 6:22 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-11-19 14:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-20 3:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-11-20 3:50 ` Parav Pandit
2020-11-20 16:16 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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