RE: [PATCH] net/mlx5: support no host PF configuration

[Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jiawei Wang <jiaweiw@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 2:42 PM
> To: Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>; Xueming(Steven) Li
> <xuemingl@nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: support no host PF configuration
> 
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> 
> From: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> 
> In BlueField, a new firmware configuration option NUM_OF_PF=0 disables PF
> on the x86 host side, no HPF on the ARM side, and the only RDMA port on
> the ARM side is the bonding device(PF0). A device probe with devargs of
> representor=pf[0-1]vf[...] will probe PF0 and PF1 one by one, and it's
> possible that PF1 device scan results in no switch ports.
> 
> This patch supports the new configuration by allowing a PF scan with empty
> switch ports.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiawei Wang <jiaweiw@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c | 7 -------
>  1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c
> b/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c
> index d5ef695e6d..75f53ade8e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c
> @@ -2195,13 +2195,6 @@ mlx5_os_pci_probe_pf(struct mlx5_common_device
> *cdev,
>                                      list[ns].info.master))
>                                 ns++;
>                 }
> -               if (!ns) {
> -                       DRV_LOG(ERR,
> -                               "Unable to recognize master/representors
> on the IB device with multiple ports.");
> -                       rte_errno = ENOENT;
> -                       ret = -rte_errno;
> -                       goto exit;
> -               }
>         } else {
>                 /*
>                  * The existence of several matching entries (nd > 1)
> means
> --

Acked-by: Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>

Thanks

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