On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Andy Gospodarek <andrew.gospoda...@broadcom.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 07:08:39PM -0700, Samudrala, Sridhar wrote: >> >> On 4/16/2018 5:39 AM, Andy Gospodarek wrote: >> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 09:01:16AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote: >> > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 2:03 AM, Samudrala, Sridhar >> > > <sridhar.samudr...@intel.com> wrote: >> > > >> > > > I meant between PFs on 2 compute nodes. >> > > If the PF serves as uplink rep, it functions as a switch port -- >> > > applications >> > > don't run on switch ports. One way to get apps to run on the host in >> > > switchdev >> > > mode is probe one of the VFs there. >> > > >> > > >> > > >> So once a pci device is configured in 'switchdev' mode, only port >> representor netdevs are >> seen on the host, no more PF netdev. > > That is not the functionality I would propose. The PF netdev will still be > there.
Andy, Basically LGTM, so even in smartnic configs, the PF @ the host is still privileged to create/destroy VFs or provision MACs for them even if it is not the e-switch manager anymore? Actually AFAIK this can also work somehow otherwise, e.g a smartnic FW "pushes" the VFs into the host w.o them being under a host admin directive.
