On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 14:29:11 -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > Out of curiosity, what are the shared features? It seems mlx5 drives > > a lot of our API design, it'd be good if the community had a better > > understanding of it. > > > > The situation with pipelined devices is somewhat murky. Didn't Or add > > some from of PCIe-side looped queue to forward between PFs? > > > > Presumably DSA would lean the opposite way with multiple ASICs > > reporting the same ID? > > If you have multiple switches inter connected between each other to use > the "D" in DSA and form a fabric of switches, then you would expect each > port to be physically tied to a particular switch device/instance, > because, but how they will report the switch physical ID can be of the form: > > <fabric>.<switch> > > where fabric is dst->index and switch is ds->index (the switch within > the fabric).
Oh, I assumed you'd want the to all have the same switchid, and then the "D" in DSA logic makes sure the flooding etc. works across the ASICs..
