> -----Original Message----- > From: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 07:04 > To: Tom Herbert <[email protected]> > Cc: Venkataramanan, Anirudh <[email protected]>; Wang, Haiyue > <[email protected]>; > [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Bowers, AndrewX > <[email protected]>; Kirsher, Jeffrey T <[email protected]>; > [email protected]; > Nguyen, Anthony L <[email protected]>; Lu, Nannan > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [net-next 1/5] ice: add the virtchnl handler for AdminQ command >
> In this case, I'm guessing, Intel can reuse RTE flow -> AQ code written > to run on PFs on the special VF. > > This community has selected switchdev + flower for programming flows. > I believe implementing flower offloads would solve your use case, and > at the same time be most beneficial to the netdev community. Jakub, Thanks, I deep into the switchdev, it is kernel software bridge for hardware offload, and each port is registered with register_netdev. So this solution is not suitable for current case: VF can be assigned to VMs. BR, Haiyue
