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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@mellanox.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>,
	Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] devlink: Add auto dump flag to health reporter
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:23:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200326212316.GI11304@nanopsycho.orion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200326103913.150b8108@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>

Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 06:39:13PM CET, kuba@kernel.org wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 11:22:44 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> >> >>> @@ -4983,6 +4985,10 @@ devlink_nl_health_reporter_fill(struct sk_buff *msg,
>> >> >>>   	    nla_put_u64_64bit(msg, DEVLINK_ATTR_HEALTH_REPORTER_DUMP_TS_NS,
>> >> >>>   			      reporter->dump_real_ts, DEVLINK_ATTR_PAD))
>> >> >>>   		goto reporter_nest_cancel;
>> >> >>> +	if (reporter->ops->dump &&
>> >> >>> +	    nla_put_u8(msg, DEVLINK_ATTR_HEALTH_REPORTER_AUTO_DUMP,
>> >> >>> +		       reporter->auto_dump))
>> >> >>> +		goto reporter_nest_cancel;    
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Since you're making it a u8 - does it make sense to indicate to user    
>> >> > 
>> >> > Please don't be mistaken. u8 carries a bool here.  
>> >
>> >Are you okay with limiting the value in the policy?  
>> 
>> Well, not-0 means true. Do you think it is wise to limit to 0/1?
>
>Just future proofing, in general seems wise to always constrain the
>input as much as possible. But in this case we already have similar
>attrs in the dump which don't have the constraint, and we will probably
>want consistency, so maybe we're unlikely to use other values.

Agreed.

>
>In particular I was wondering if auto-dump value can be extended to
>mean the number of dumps we want to collect, the current behavior I
>think matches collecting just one. But obviously this can be solved
>with a new attr when needed..

      reply	other threads:[~2020-03-26 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-25 13:26 [PATCH net-next 0/2] Devlink health auto attributes refactor Eran Ben Elisha
2020-03-25 13:26 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] devlink: Implicitly set auto recover flag when registering health reporter Eran Ben Elisha
2020-03-25 18:33   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-25 13:26 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] devlink: Add auto dump flag to " Eran Ben Elisha
2020-03-25 18:45   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-25 19:08     ` Jiri Pirko
2020-03-25 19:38       ` Eran Ben Elisha
2020-03-26  0:01         ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-26  9:06           ` Eran Ben Elisha
2020-03-26 10:22           ` Jiri Pirko
2020-03-26 17:39             ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-26 21:23               ` Jiri Pirko [this message]

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