On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 09:26:34AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:15:29 -0400, Andy Gospodarek wrote: > > > A similar issue exists on multi-host for PFs, right? If one of the > > > hosts is down do we still show their PF repr? IMHO yes. > > > > I would agree with that as well. With today's model the VF reps are > > created once a PF is put into switchdev mode, but I'm still working out > > how we want to consider whether or not a PF rep for the other domains is > > created locally or not and also how one can determine which domain is in > > control. > > > > Permanent config options (like NVRAM settings) could easily handle which > > domain is in control, but that still does not mean that PF reps must be > > created automatically, does it? > > The control domain is tricky. I'm not sure I understand how you could > not have a PF rep for remote domains, though. How do you configure > switching to the PF netdev if there is no rep?
Yes, for complete control of all traffic using standard Linux APIs a PF rep is a requirement.
