> -----Original Message----- > From: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 04:46 > To: Wang, Haiyue <[email protected]> > Cc: Tom Herbert <[email protected]>; Venkataramanan, Anirudh > <[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]>; Liang, Cunming > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [net-next 1/5] ice: add the virtchnl handler for AdminQ command > > On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 10:39:52 +0000 Wang, Haiyue wrote: > > > 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. > > You may be missing the concept of a representor. >
I found the concept, thanks, missed it!
