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When driver is entering offloads mode, there are two major tasks to do: initialize flow steering and create representors. Flow steering should make sure enough flow table/group spaces are reserved for all reps. Representors will be created in a group, all or none. With the introduction of ECPF, flow steering should still reserve the same spaces. But, the representors are not always loaded/unloaded in a single piece. Once ECPF is in offloads mode, it will get the number of VF changing event from host PF. In such scenario, only the VF reps should be loaded/unloaded, not the reps for special vports (such as the uplink vport). Thus, when entering offloads mode, driver should specify the total number of reps, and the number of VF reps separately. When leaving offloads mode, the cleanup should use the information self-contained in eswitch such as number of VFs. This patch doesn't change any functionality. Signed-off-by: Bodong Wang <bodong@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.