Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net/mlx5: Introduce devlink param to disable SF aux dev probe

[Jiri Pirko]

Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 02:25:25AM CET, kuba@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 09:39:54 +0200 Moshe Shemesh wrote:
>> Well we don't have the SFs at that stage, how can we tell which SF will 
>> use vnet and which SF will use eth ?
>
>On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 10:57:21 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote: 
>> It's a different user. One works with the eswitch and creates the port
>> function. The other one takes the created instance and works with it.
>> Note that it may be on a different host.
>
>It is a little confusing, so I may well be misunderstanding but the
>cover letter says:
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>$ devlink dev param set pci/0000:08:00.0 name enable_sfs_aux_devs \
>              value false cmode runtime
>
>$ devlink port add pci/0000:08:00.0 flavour pcisf pfnum 0 sfnum 11
>
>So both of these run on the same side, no?
>
>What I meant is make the former part of the latter:
>
>$ devlink port add pci/0000:08:00.0 flavour pcisf pfnum 0 sfnum 11 noprobe

I see. So it would not be "global policy" but per-instance option during
creation. That makes sense. I wonder if the HW is capable of such flow,
Moshe, Saeed?


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>
>Maybe worth clarifying - pci/0000:08:00.0 is the eswitch side and
>auxiliary/mlx5_core.sf.1 is the... "customer" side, correct? 

Yep.