[ofa-general] [PATCH RFCv2 1/2] RDMA: Add protocol statisticsattributes to the RDMA sysfs.

[Chien Tung]

> Chien Tung wrote:
> >> Actually it seems that you attach a struct ib_device to 
> each netdev 
> >> (eg a two-port NIC gets two RDMA devices with iw_nes) so Steve's 
> >> scheme should work fine for you too?  (I just looked on a 
> system with 
> >> a two-port NIC and I do see nes0 and nes1 devices)
> >
> > After some discussion with our architect, Steve's scheme 
> will work for us by limiting to one netdev per physical port. 
> Does "one netdev per port" means something (what?) will not 
> be supported when VLANs are (eg nes0.4001, nes1.4002, etc) 
> would be used?
> 
> Or.

I was not referring to VLAN netdevs.  We can have multiple netdevs
backed by HW resources per physical port.  Currently we are only
creating one per PCI function/physical port.  You can create VLAN
interfaces on top of those netdevs up to OS limit.

Chien