This patchset carry forwards the work initiated in [1] and discussion
futher concluded at [2].
To improve visibility of representor netdevice, its association with
PF or VF, physical port, two new devlink port flavours are added as
PCI PF and PCI VF ports.
A sample eswitch view can be seen below, which will be futher extended to
mdev subdevices of a PCI function in future.
Patch-1,2 extends devlink port attributes and port flavour.
Patch-3 extends mlx5 driver to register devlink ports for PF, VF and
physical link.
+---+ +---+
vf| | | | pf
+-+-+ +-+-+
physical link <---------+ | |
| | |
| | |
+-+-+ +-+-+ +-+-+
| 1 | | 2 | | 3 |
+--+---+-----+---+------+---+--+
| physical vf pf |
| port port port |
| |
| eswitch |
| |
+------------------------------+
[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg555797.html
[2] https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=155354609408485&w=2
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Changelog:
v1->v2:
- Updated new APIs and mlx5 driver to drop port_number for PF, VF
attributes
- Updated port_number comment for its usage
- Limited putting port_number to physical ports
Parav Pandit (3):
devlink: Introduce PCI PF port flavour and port attribute
devlink: Introduce PCI VF port flavour and port attribute
net/mlx5e: Register devlink ports for physical link, PCI PF, VFs
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.c | 108 ++++++++++++-----
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rep.h | 1 +
include/net/devlink.h | 25 +++-
include/uapi/linux/devlink.h | 11 ++
net/core/devlink.c | 114 +++++++++++++++---
5 files changed, 212 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
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2.19.2
