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From: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
To: Edwin Peer <edwin.peer@broadcom.com>, Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
	Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@intel.com>,
	"Jacob Keller" <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
	"Ertman, David M" <david.m.ertman@intel.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"Saeed Mahameed" <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Subject: RE: [pull request][net-next V10 00/14] Add mlx5 subfunction support
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:57:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BY5PR12MB43229840037E730F884C3356DCBD9@BY5PR12MB4322.namprd12.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKOOJTxQ8G1krPbRmRHx8N0bsHnT3XXkgkREY6NxCJ26aHH7RQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Edwin,

> From: Edwin Peer <edwin.peer@broadcom.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 2:17 AM
> 
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 11:37 AM Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > For more detailed information about subfunctions please see detailed tag
> > log below.
> 
> Apologies for the tardy question out of left field, but I've been
> thinking about this some more. If I recall, the primary motivation for
> this was a means to effectively address more VFs? But, why can't the
> device simply expose more bus numbers?

Several weeks back, Jason already answered this VF scaling question from you at discussion [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201216023928.GG552508@nvidia.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-26  3:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-22 19:36 [pull request][net-next V10 00/14] Add mlx5 subfunction support Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-22 19:36 ` [net-next V10 01/14] devlink: Prepare code to fill multiple port function attributes Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-29  1:40   ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2021-01-22 19:36 ` [net-next V10 02/14] devlink: Introduce PCI SF port flavour and port attribute Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-22 19:36 ` [net-next V10 03/14] devlink: Support add and delete devlink port Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-22 19:36 ` [net-next V10 04/14] devlink: Support get and set state of port function Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-22 19:36 ` [net-next V10 05/14] net/mlx5: Introduce vhca state event notifier Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-22 19:36 ` [net-next V10 06/14] net/mlx5: SF, Add auxiliary device support Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-22 19:36 ` [net-next V10 07/14] net/mlx5: SF, Add auxiliary device driver Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-22 19:36 ` [net-next V10 08/14] net/mlx5: E-switch, Prepare eswitch to handle SF vport Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-22 19:36 ` [net-next V10 09/14] net/mlx5: E-switch, Add eswitch helpers for " Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-22 19:36 ` [net-next V10 10/14] net/mlx5: SF, Add port add delete functionality Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-22 19:36 ` [net-next V10 11/14] net/mlx5: SF, Port function state change support Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-22 19:36 ` [net-next V10 12/14] devlink: Add devlink port documentation Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-22 19:36 ` [net-next V10 13/14] devlink: Extend devlink port documentation for subfunctions Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-22 19:36 ` [net-next V10 14/14] net/mlx5: Add devlink subfunction port documentation Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-24 20:47 ` [pull request][net-next V10 00/14] Add mlx5 subfunction support Edwin Peer
2021-01-25 10:57   ` Parav Pandit [this message]
2021-01-25 13:22     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-01-25 19:23       ` Edwin Peer
2021-01-25 19:49         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-01-25 20:05           ` Edwin Peer
2021-01-25 20:22             ` Michael Chan
2021-01-25 20:26             ` Parav Pandit
2021-01-25 18:35     ` Edwin Peer
2021-01-25 19:34       ` Edwin Peer
2021-01-25 19:59         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-01-25 20:22           ` Edwin Peer
2021-01-25 20:41             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-01-25 21:23               ` Edwin Peer
2021-01-25 23:13                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-01-27  1:34 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-01-29  0:03   ` Saeed Mahameed
2021-01-29  0:11     ` Jakub Kicinski

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