> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 6:36 PM
> To: mschmidt <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; Brandeburg, Jesse
> <[email protected]>; Richard Cochran <[email protected]>;
> Kubalewski, Arkadiusz <[email protected]>; Kolacinski, Karol
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] ice: add ice_adapter for shared data across
> PFs
> on the same NIC
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:11:23 +0100 Michal Schmidt wrote:
> > There is a need for synchronization between ice PFs on the same physical
> > adapter.
> >
> > Add a "struct ice_adapter" for holding data shared between PFs of the
> > same multifunction PCI device. The struct is refcounted - each ice_pf
> > holds a reference to it.
> >
> > Its first use will be for PTP. I expect it will be useful also to
> > improve the ugliness that is ice_prot_id_tbl.
>
> ice doesn't support any multi-host devices?
No. I guess you could try to direct-assign one PF into a VM? But otherwise it
doesn't have support for any multi-host. I also am not aware of any plans to
add such a device to it in the future. I think all our future multi-host stuff
would be with idpf.
Thanks,
Jake
