[dpdk-dev] [RFC 00/14] mlx5: support SubFunction

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 5/27/2021 2:37 PM, Xueming Li wrote:
> SubFunction [1] is a portion of the PCI device, a SF netdev has its own
> dedicated queues(txq, rxq). A SF shares PCI level resources with other
> SFs and/or with its parent PCI function. Auxiliary bus is the
> fundamental of SF.
> 
> This patch set introduces SubFunction support for mlx5 PMD driver
> including class net, regex, vdpa and compress.
> 

There is already an mdev patch, originated from long ago. Aren't subfunctions
presented as mdev device? If so can't we use mdev for it?