On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 01:29:40 +0000 Wang, Haiyue wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:43:16 -0700 Tony Nguyen wrote: > > > From: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.w...@intel.com> > > > > > > The DCF (Device Config Function) is a named trust VF (always with ID 0, > > > single entity per PF port) that can act as a sole controlling entity to > > > exercise advance functionality such as adding switch rules for the rest > > > of VFs. > > > > But why? This looks like a bifurcated driver to me. > > Yes, like bifurcated about flow control. This expands Intel AVF virtual > channel > commands, so that VF can talk to hardware indirectly, which is under control > of > PF. Then VF can set up the flow control for other VFs. This enrich current > PF's > Flow Director filter for PF itself only by ethtool.
Could you say a little more about the application and motivation for this? We are talking about a single control domain here, correct?
