> -----Original Message-----
> From: Staikov, Andrii <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2023 6:00 AM
> To: Keller, Jacob E <[email protected]>; 
> [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Ostrowska, Karen
> <[email protected]>; Mateusz Palczewski
> <[email protected]>; Drewek, Wojciech
> <[email protected]>; Kitszel, Przemyslaw
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [PATCH iwl-net v4] i40e: Restore VF MSI-X state during PCI reset
> 
> 
> > The ice driver recently started caching the PCI device structure
> > pointers in their VF structure instead of having to do this sort of
> > lookup on the fly.
> >
> > See 31642d2854e2 ("ice: store VF's pci_dev ptr in ice_vf") [1][2]
> >
> > [1]:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/intel-wired-lan/20230912115626.105828-1-
> [email protected]/
> > [2]:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231019173227.3175575-4-
> [email protected]/
> >
> > Can we do something similar for i40e?
> 
> For now we don't anticipate much benefit of this approach, and we want 
> relatively
> smaller change for a bugfix.
> 
> Regards,
> Staikov Andrii

Sure. If we ever need the VF PCI dev pointer in the future we can look into 
this. Not a huge deal for this since it’s the only place we use it currently 
anyways. Thanks for the response!

Thanks,
Jake
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