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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
	"dledford@redhat.com" <dledford@redhat.com>,
	"Leon Romanovsky" <leonro@nvidia.com>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/13] Add mlx5 subfunction support
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:23:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201118182319.7bad1ca6@kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BY5PR12MB4322F01A4505AF21F696DCA2DCE20@BY5PR12MB4322.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:50:57 +0000 Parav Pandit wrote:
> At this point vdpa tool of [1] can create one or more vdpa net devices on this subfunction device in below sequence.
> 
> $ vdpa parentdev list
> auxiliary/mlx5_core.sf.4
>   supported_classes
>     net
> 
> $ vdpa dev add parentdev auxiliary/mlx5_core.sf.4 type net name foo0
> 
> $ vdpa dev show foo0
> foo0: parentdev auxiliary/mlx5_core.sf.4 type network parentdev vdpasim vendor_id 0 max_vqs 2 max_vq_size 256
> 
> > I'm asking how the vdpa API fits in with this, and you're showing me the two
> > devlink commands we already talked about in the past.  
> Oh ok, sorry, my bad. I understood your question now about relation of vdpa commands with this.
> Please look at the above example sequence that covers the vdpa example also.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201112064005.349268-1-parav@nvidia.com/

I think the biggest missing piece in my understanding is what's the
technical difference between an SF and a VDPA device.

Isn't a VDPA device an SF with a particular descriptor format for the
queues?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-19  2:23 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
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 [this message]
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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