From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>,
"alex.williamson@redhat.com" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
"kwankhede@nvidia.com" <kwankhede@nvidia.com>,
"leon@kernel.org" <leon@kernel.org>,
"cohuck@redhat.com" <cohuck@redhat.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>,
"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 12/19] devlink: Introduce mdev port flavour
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 19:11:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191108181119.GT6990@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM0PR05MB48669A9AE494CCCE8E07C367D17B0@AM0PR05MB4866.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com>
Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 05:43:43PM CET, parav@mellanox.com wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
>> >> >> On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 01:44:53 +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
>> >> >> > > I'm talking about netlink attributes. I'm not suggesting to
>> >> >> > > sprintf it all into the phys_port_name.
>> >> >> > >
>> >> >> > I didn't follow your comment. For devlink port show command
>> >> >> > output you said,
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > "Surely those devices are anchored in on of the PF (or possibly
>> >> >> > VFs) that should be exposed here from the start."
>> >> >> > So I was trying to explain why we don't expose PF/VF detail in
>> >> >> > the port attributes which contains
>> >> >> > (a) flavour
>> >> >> > (b) netdev representor (name derived from phys_port_name)
>> >> >> > (c) mdev alias
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Can you please describe which netlink attribute I missed?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Identification of the PCI device. The PCI devices are not linked
>> >> >> to devlink ports, so the sysfs hierarchy (a) is irrelevant, (b)
>> >> >> may not be visible in multi- host (or SmartNIC).
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >It's the unique mdev device alias. It is not right to attach to the PCI
>> device.
>> >> >Mdev is bus in itself where devices are identified uniquely. So an
>> >> >alias
>> >> suffice that identity.
>> >>
>> >> Wait a sec. For mdev, what you say is correct. But here we talk about
>> >> devlink_port which is representing this mdev. And this devlink_port
>> >> is very similar to VF devlink_port. It is bound to specific PF (in
>> >> case of mdev it could be PF-VF).
>> >>
>> >But mdev port has unique phys_port_name in system, it incorrect to use
>> PF/VF prefix.
>>
>> Why incorrect? It is always bound to pf/vf?
>>
>Because mdev device already identified using its unique alias. Why does it need prefix?
>Mdev core generating the alias is not aware of the prefixes applied devlink. it shouldn't be.
>We want more letters towards uniqueness of the alias and filling it up with such prefixes doesn't make sense.
mdev belongs undev pf/vf, no matter how uniqueue the name/alias is.
Well, I don't really need those in the phys_port_name, mainly simply
because they would not fit. However, I believe that you should fillup
the PF/VF devlink netlink attrs.
Note that we are not talking here about the actual mdev, but rather
devlink_port associated with this mdev. And devlink port should have
this info.
>
>> >What in hypothetical case, mdev is not on top of PCI...
>>
>> Okay, let's go hypothetical. In that case, it is going to be on top of something
>> else, wouldn't it?
>Yes, it will be. But just because it is on top of something, doesn't mean we include the whole parent dev, its bridge, its rc hierarchy here.
>There should be a need.
>It was needed in PF/VF case due to overlapping numbers of VFs via single devlink instance. You probably missed my reply to Jakub.
Sure. Again, I don't really care about having that in phys_port_name.
But please fillup the attrs.
>Here it is no overlap.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-08 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 132+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-07 16:04 [PATCH net-next 00/19] Mellanox, mlx5 sub function support Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 01/19] net/mlx5: E-switch, Move devlink port close to eswitch port Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 02/19] net/mlx5: E-Switch, Add SF vport, vport-rep support Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 03/19] net/mlx5: Introduce SF table framework Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 04/19] net/mlx5: Introduce SF life cycle APIs to allocate/free Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 05/19] net/mlx5: E-Switch, Enable/disable SF's vport during SF life cycle Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 06/19] net/mlx5: Add support for mediated devices in switchdev mode Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 10:32 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 16:03 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 16:22 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 16:29 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 18:01 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 18:04 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 18:21 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 07/19] vfio/mdev: Introduce sha1 based mdev alias Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 11:04 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:59 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 16:28 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 11:10 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-11-08 16:03 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 08/19] vfio/mdev: Make mdev alias unique among all mdevs Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 10:49 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:13 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 09/19] vfio/mdev: Expose mdev alias in sysfs tree Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 13:22 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 18:03 ` Alex Williamson
2019-11-08 18:16 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 10/19] vfio/mdev: Introduce an API mdev_alias Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 11/19] vfio/mdev: Improvise mdev life cycle and parent removal scheme Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 13:01 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-11-08 16:12 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 12/19] devlink: Introduce mdev port flavour Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 20:38 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-07 21:03 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 1:17 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 1:44 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 2:20 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 2:31 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 9:46 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:45 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 16:31 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 16:43 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 18:11 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2019-11-08 18:23 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 18:34 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 18:56 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 9:30 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:41 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 13/19] net/mlx5: Register SF devlink port Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 14/19] net/mlx5: Share irqs between SFs and parent PCI device Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 15/19] net/mlx5: Add load/unload routines for SF driver binding Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 9:48 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 11:13 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 16/19] net/mlx5: Implement dma ops and params for mediated device Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 20:42 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-07 21:30 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 1:16 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 6:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-08 15:29 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 17/19] net/mlx5: Add mdev driver to bind to mdev devices Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 18/19] Documentation: net: mlx5: Add mdev usage documentation Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 19/19] mtty: Optionally support mtty alias Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 6:26 ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-11-08 10:45 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:08 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 15:15 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 13:46 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-11-08 15:10 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 15:28 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-11-08 15:30 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 17:54 ` Alex Williamson
2019-11-08 9:51 ` [PATCH net-next 01/19] net/mlx5: E-switch, Move devlink port close to eswitch port Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:50 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 17:03 ` [PATCH net-next 00/19] Mellanox, mlx5 sub function support Leon Romanovsky
2019-11-07 20:10 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 6:20 ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-11-08 15:01 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 20:32 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-07 20:52 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 1:16 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 1:49 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 2:12 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 12:12 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 14:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-08 15:40 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 19:12 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 20:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-08 20:20 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 20:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-08 20:52 ` gregkh
2019-11-08 20:34 ` Alex Williamson
2019-11-08 21:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-08 21:19 ` gregkh
2019-11-08 21:52 ` Alex Williamson
2019-11-08 22:48 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-09 0:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-09 17:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-10 19:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-10 19:48 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-11 14:17 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-11 14:58 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-11 15:06 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-19 4:51 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-09 0:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-09 0:45 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-11 2:19 ` Jason Wang
2019-11-08 21:45 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-09 0:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-09 8:46 ` gregkh
2019-11-09 11:18 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-09 17:28 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-10 9:16 ` gregkh
2019-11-09 17:27 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-10 9:18 ` gregkh
2019-11-11 3:46 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-11 5:18 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-11 13:30 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-11 14:14 ` gregkh
2019-11-11 14:37 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-10 19:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-11 3:57 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 16:06 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 19:06 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 19:34 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 19:48 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 19:41 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 20:40 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 21:21 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 21:39 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 21:51 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 22:21 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-07 23:57 ` David Miller
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