RE: [virtio-comment] RE: RE: RE: RE: [RFC] virtio-net: support access and control the member devices

[Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>]

> From: Satananda Burla <sburla@marvell.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2023 10:33 PM


> IMO, kernel already prescribes using representors for mac/vlan  programming
> for SRIOV/SIOV eswitch devices, member devices may have to support
> representor interfaces.

Member device's representor switch port is on the owner (switch) device.
And flow filter entries are programmed on this owner (switch) device's flow vq.
OS level representor is also on this owner (switch) device.