On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:47:00 -0400, Andy Gospodarek wrote: > There is also a school of thought that the VF reps could be > pre-allocated on the SmartNIC so that any application processing that > traffic would sit idle when no traffic arrives on the rep, but could > process frames that do arrive when the VFs were created on the host. > This implementation will depend on how resources are allocated on a > given bit of hardware, but can really work well.
+1 if there is no FW resource allocation issues IMHO it's okay to just show all reprs for "remote PCIes (PFs and VFs)" on the SmartNIC/ controller. The reprs should just show link down as if PCIe cable was unpluged until host actually enables them. A similar issue exists on multi-host for PFs, right? If one of the hosts is down do we still show their PF repr? IMHO yes. That makes the thing looks more like a switch with cables being plugged in and out.
