Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 09:56:24AM CET, jiri@resnulli.us wrote:

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devlink instance).  Those less pipelined NICs can forward between
ports, but still want a function per port (otherwise user space
sometimes gets confused).  If we have multiple functions which are on
the same "switchid" they should have a single devlink instance if you
ask me.  That instance will have all the ports of the device.

Okay, that makes sense. But the question it, can the same devlink
instance contain ports that does not have "Switchid"?

I think it would be beneficial to have the switchid shown for devlink
ports too. Then it is clean that the devlink ports with the same
switchid belong to the same switch, and other ports under the same
devlink instance (like PF itself) is separate, but still under the same
ASIC.

Working on this. Will sent patchset later today/tmrw.

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