Hi Dave and all, During and after the BoF on SRIOV switchdev mode, we came into a consensus among the developers from four different HW vendors (CC audience) that a correct thing to do would be to disallow any new extensions to the legacy mode.
The idea is to put focus on the new mode and not add new UAPIs and kernel code which was turned to be a wrong design which does not allow for properly offloading a kernel switching SW model to e-switch HW. We also had a good session the day after regarding alignment for the representation model of the uplink (physical port) and PF/s. The VF representor netdevs exist for all drivers that support the new mode but the representation for the uplink and PF wasn't the same for all. The decision was to represent the uplink and PFs vports in the same manner done for VFs, using rep netdevs. This alignment would provide a more strict and clear view of the kernel model for e-switch to users and upper layer control plane SW. Or.
