[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] PCI: allow drivers to limit the number of VFs to 0

[Keller, Jacob E]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bjorn Helgaas [mailto:helgaas at kernel.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2018 10:01 AM
> To: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski at netronome.com>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>; linux-pci at vger.kernel.org;
> netdev at vger.kernel.org; Sathya Perla <sathya.perla at broadcom.com>; Felix
> Manlunas <felix.manlunas at caviumnetworks.com>;
> alexander.duyck at gmail.com; john.fastabend at gmail.com; Keller, Jacob E
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: allow drivers to limit the number of VFs to 0
> 
> [+cc liquidio, benet, fm10k maintainers:
> 
>   The patch below will affect you if your driver calls
>     pci_sriov_set_totalvfs(dev, 0);
> 
>   Previously that caused a subsequent pci_sriov_get_totalvfs() to return
>   the totalVFs value from the SR-IOV capability.  After this patch, it will
>   return 0, which has implications for VF enablement via the sysfs
>   "sriov_numvfs" file.]
> 

Thanks. I don't foresee any issues with fm10k regarding this..

Thanks,
Jake