On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 07:08:39PM -0700, Samudrala, Sridhar wrote: > > On 4/16/2018 5:39 AM, Andy Gospodarek wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 09:01:16AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 2:03 AM, Samudrala, Sridhar > > > <sridhar.samudr...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > > > > I meant between PFs on 2 compute nodes. > > > If the PF serves as uplink rep, it functions as a switch port -- > > > applications > > > don't run on switch ports. One way to get apps to run on the host in > > > switchdev > > > mode is probe one of the VFs there. > > > > > > > > > > So once a pci device is configured in 'switchdev' mode, only port > representor netdevs are > seen on the host, no more PF netdev.
That is not the functionality I would propose. The PF netdev will still be there. > Are you going to expose another way to change sriov_num_vfs when the device > is in > 'switchdev' mode OR do we need to switch to 'legacy' mode to > increase/decrease the number of > VFs? Since the PF netdev will not disappear, the standard ways to configure number of VF, etc is still available. > Even in switchdev mode, i guess it will be possible for host apps to use the > IP configured > on the uplink rep to talk externally. > > In case of multiple uplinks, are you exposing one uplink-rep netdev per > uplink?
