RE: Add a helper function in PCI IOV to get VF device

[Williams, Mitch A]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Frank Pan [mailto:frankpzh@xxxxxxxxx]

>
>I'm not talking about PF's pci device, because PF
>driver knows it. I'm talking about VF's.
>The root cause is PF cannot get VF's bdf, so it has
>no idea where VF is. IMO it's abnormal.
>
>Make symlinks is just a use case. When a userspace
>app only knows VF's bdf, it has no idea how to get
>into the VF's interface-like directories.
>(/sys/class/net/ethX/vf[1-7])
>Because of:
>1. Userspace app cannot get PF's bdf from VF's bdf
>2. Userspace app cannot guess the interface name of
>pf(ethX)
>So a symlink from /sys/bus/pci/devices/xxxxx to
>/sys/class/net/ethX/vf[1-7] is useful.
>This is a real issue.
>

Frank, I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish here. All of the information you need is already in sysfs. Given the PF device, you can look at /sys/class/net/ethX/device/virtfnX to get the bus/device/function of each of the VF devices.

If the VF driver is loaded in your kernel, then given the bus/device/function of the vf device, you can look at /sys/class/net/ethX/device/virtfnX/net to see which interface corresponds to that VF.

Furthermore, if the VF driver is loaded, you can find the PF device by looking at /sys/class/net/ethX/device/physfn, and you can find out which interface it is by looking at /sys/class/net/ethX/device/physfn/net

So it's all there. You don't need anything else.

The current PF drivers (both ixgbe and igb) do not directly manipulate sysfs at all, so there is no /sys/class/net/ethX/vfX. If you see this setup, you are using a very, very old version of the igb driver, which is not supported at all. Please upgrade to a recent kernel/driver combination.

-Mitch


>Thanks for reply.
>
>--
>Frank Pan
>
>Computer Science and Technology
>Tsinghua University
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