Re: [PATCH v2 02/17] psp: base PSP device support

Jakub Kicinski wrote:

On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:20:45 -0400 Willem de Bruijn wrote:

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IDPF does support multiple "vports" (num_alloc_vports), and with that
struct net_device, from a single BDF.  

Upstream? If yes then I'm very bad at reviewing code :D  

I then don't think I want to focus your attention on this, but..

See use num_alloc_ports in idpf_init_task. Which keeps requeueing
itself until num_default_vports is reached. Which is a variable
received from the device in VIRTCHNL2_OP_GET_CAPS.

That's not too bad, one of the older drivers had a sysfs interface
for creating the sub-interfaces IIRC :/

We should be able to share one psp_dev if the implementation shares PSP
between blocks.

Great.

I was trying to write the code so that it'd be possible
to attach the psp_dev to veth / netkit
IIRC the main_netdev was supposed to be special in terms of
permissions, the admin in the netns where main_netdev sits is
the admin of the device (for rotations and config).
But I was planning to add a secondary list of "attached devices"
which have access to non-privileged operations. 

That makes sense. I like how this approach enables support for such
devices without having to explicitly pipe through net_device_ops
(what legacy Google PSP implementation had to do for each of ipvlan,
bonding, etc).