Re: [PATCH net-next 03/10] devlink: Serialize access to rate domains

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:44:35 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> > Why would there still be PF instances? I'm not suggesting that you
> > create a hierarchy of instances.  
> 
> I'm not sure how you imagine getting rid of them. One PCI PF
> instantiates one devlink now. There are lots of configuration (e.g. params)
> that is per-PF. You need this instance for that, how else would you do
> per-PF things on shared ASIC instance?

There are per-PF ports, right?

> Creating SFs is per-PF operation for example. I didn't to thorough
> analysis, but I'm sure there are couple of per-PF things like these.

Seems like adding a port attribute to SF creation would be a much
smaller extension than adding a layer of objects.

> Also not breaking the existing users may be an argument to keep per-PF
> instances.

We're talking about multi-PF devices only. Besides pretty sure we 
moved multiple params and health reporters to be per port, so IDK 
what changed now.