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SubjectRE: [PATCH RESEND net] ice: Correctly deal with PFs that do not support RDMA
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND net] ice: Correctly deal with PFs that do not
> support RDMA
>
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 08:12:23AM -0700, Dave Ertman wrote:
> > There are two cases where the current PF does not support RDMA
> > functionality. The first is if the NVM loaded on the device is set to
> > not support RDMA (common_caps.rdma is false). The second is if the
> > kernel bonding driver has included the current PF in an active link
> > aggregate.
> >
> > When the driver has determined that this PF does not support RDMA,
> > then auxiliary devices should not be created on the auxiliary bus.
>
> This part is wrong, auxiliary devices should always be created, in your case it will
> be one eth device only without extra irdma device.

It is worth considering having an eth aux device/driver but is it a hard-and-fast rule?
In this case, the RDMA-capable PCI network device spawns an auxiliary device for RDMA
and the core driver is a network driver.

>
> Your "bug" is that you mixed auxiliary bus devices with "regular" ones and created
> eth device not as auxiliary one. This is why you are calling to auxiliary_device_init()
> for RDMA only and fallback to non-auxiliary mode.

It's a design choice on how you carve out function(s) off your PCI core device to be
managed by auxiliary driver(s) and not a bug.

Shiraz

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