I have a CX556A. When inserted I can see two physical functions through lspci. In the document of ConnectX-5
http://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/prod_adapter_cards/PB_ConnectX-5_EN_Card.pdf
In the SR-IOV, it says it can support up to 16 physical functions. I am wondering if it can be achieved on CX556A? Is there any way to enable more than two physical functions?
I have tried the SR-IOV instruction and successfully enable multiple virtual functions per physical function, but have no clue how to enable more physical functions.
In short, My question is
- In default, I can only see two physical functions on CX556A, which has two ports, meaning 1 PF per port. Is it possible to enable more PF on the card?
- If we can enable more PFs on the card, how should we do it? Or which part of the HW/SW (driver, firmware, etc. ) is handling this?
Thank you so much.