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Saeed Mahameed says: ==================== Support Multi-PF netdev (Socket Direct) This series adds support for combining multiple devices (PFs) of the same port under one netdev instance. Passing traffic through different devices belonging to different NUMA sockets saves cross-numa traffic and allows apps running on the same netdev from different numas to still feel a sense of proximity to the device and achieve improved performance. We achieve this by grouping PFs together, and creating the netdev only once all group members are probed. Symmetrically, we destroy the netdev once any of the PFs is removed. The channels are distributed between all devices, a proper configuration would utilize the correct close numa when working on a certain app/cpu. We pick one device to be a primary (leader), and it fills a special role. The other devices (secondaries) are disconnected from the network in the chip level (set to silent mode). All RX/TX traffic is steered through the primary to/from the secondaries. Currently, we limit the support to PFs only, and up to two devices (sockets). * tag 'mlx5-socket-direct-v3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux: Documentation: networking: Add description for multi-pf netdev net/mlx5: Enable SD feature net/mlx5e: Block TLS device offload on combined SD netdev net/mlx5e: Support per-mdev queue counter net/mlx5e: Support cross-vhca RSS net/mlx5e: Let channels be SD-aware net/mlx5e: Create EN core HW resources for all secondary devices net/mlx5e: Create single netdev per SD group net/mlx5: SD, Add debugfs net/mlx5: SD, Add informative prints in kernel log net/mlx5: SD, Implement steering for primary and secondaries net/mlx5: SD, Implement devcom communication and primary election net/mlx5: SD, Implement basic query and instantiation net/mlx5: SD, Introduce SD lib net/mlx5: Add MPIR bit in mcam_access_reg ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240307084229.500776-1-saeed@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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