On Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:52:32 +0200 Paolo Abeni wrote:

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Looking a bit into the future now...
I am nowadays thinking about extending the mlx5 VF group rate limit
feature to support VFs from multiple PFs from the same NIC (the
hardware can be configured to use a shared shaper across multiple
ports), how could that feature be represented in this API, given that
ops relate to a netdevice? Which netdevice should be used for this
scenario?  

I must admit we[1] haven't thought yet about the scenario you describe
above. I guess we could encode the PF number and the VF number in the
handle major/minor and operate on any PF device belonging to the same
silicon, WDYT?

Just a minor clarification. _Internally_ we can support expressing VF /
PF shaping. uAPI for that continues to be devlink, right?