From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, oss-drivers@netronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/7] devlink: allow subports on devlink PCI ports
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:10:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190311191054.36b801d6@cakuba.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190311085204.GA2194@nanopsycho>
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:52:04 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 08:09:43PM CET, jakub.kicinski@netronome.com wrote:
> >If the switchport is in the hypervisor then only the hypervisor can
> >control switching/forwarding, correct?
>
> Correct.
>
> >The primary use case for partitioning within a VM (of a VF) would be
> >containers (and DPDK)?
>
> Makes sense.
>
> >SR-IOV makes things harder. Splitting a PF is reasonably easy to grasp.
> >I'm trying to get a sense of is how would we control an SR-IOV
> >environment as a whole.
>
> You mean orchestration?
Right, orchestration.
To be clear on where I'm going with this - if we want to allow VFs
to partition themselves then they have to control what is effectively
a "nested" switch. A per-VF set of rules which would the get
"flattened" into the main eswitch rule set. If I was to choose I'd
really rather have this "flattening" be done on the (Linux) hypervisor
and not in the vendor driver and firmware.
I'd much rather have the VM make a "give me another NIC" orchestration
call via some high level REST API than devlink. This makes the
configuration strictly high level to low level:
VM -> cloud net REST API -> cloud agent -> devlink/Linux -> FW -> HW
Without round trips via firmware.
This allows for easy policy enforcement, common code to be maintained
in user space, in high level languages (no 0.5M LoC drivers and 10M LoC
firmware for every driver). It can also be used with software paths
like VirtIO..
Modelling and debugging a nested switch would be a nightmare. What
follows is that we probably shouldn't deal with partitioning of VFs,
but rather only partition via the PF devlink instance, and reassign
the partitions to VMs.
> I originally planned to implement sriov orchestration api in devlink too.
Interesting, would you mind elaborating?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-12 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-01 18:04 [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] devlink: expose PF and VF representors as ports Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-01 18:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/7] nfp: split devlink port init from registration Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-01 18:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/7] devlink: add PF and VF port flavours Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-01 18:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/7] nfp: register devlink ports of all reprs Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-02 8:43 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-02 19:07 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-04 7:36 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-04 23:32 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-01 18:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/7] devlink: allow subports on devlink PCI ports Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-02 9:41 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-02 19:48 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-04 7:56 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-05 0:33 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-05 11:06 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-05 17:15 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-05 19:59 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-06 12:20 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-06 17:56 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-07 3:56 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-07 9:48 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-08 2:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-08 14:54 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-08 19:09 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-11 8:52 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-12 2:10 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2019-03-12 14:02 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-12 20:56 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-13 6:07 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-13 16:17 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-13 16:22 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-13 16:55 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-14 7:38 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-14 22:09 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-14 22:35 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-14 23:39 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-15 1:28 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-15 1:31 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-15 2:15 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2019-03-15 2:40 ` Parav Pandit
[not found] ` <ae938b4f-5fa9-3c33-8ae6-eab2d3d9f1ec@intel.com>
2019-03-15 15:32 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-15 20:08 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-15 20:44 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-15 22:12 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-16 1:16 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-18 15:43 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-18 19:29 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-18 12:11 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-18 19:16 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-21 8:45 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-21 15:14 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-21 16:14 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-21 16:52 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-21 17:20 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-21 17:34 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-22 16:27 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-23 0:37 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-15 21:59 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-18 12:21 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-18 15:56 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-18 16:22 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-18 19:36 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-18 19:44 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-18 19:59 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-18 20:35 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-18 21:29 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-18 22:11 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-20 18:24 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-20 20:22 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-20 23:39 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-21 9:08 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-21 15:03 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-21 16:16 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-21 16:50 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-21 17:23 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-21 17:42 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-22 13:32 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-23 0:40 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-25 20:34 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-18 19:19 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-18 19:38 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-21 9:09 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-15 7:00 ` Jiri Pirko
[not found] ` <7227d58e-ac58-d549-b921-ca0a0dd3f4b0@intel.com>
2019-03-13 7:37 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-13 16:03 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2019-03-13 16:24 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-04 11:19 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-05 0:40 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-05 11:07 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-04 11:08 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-05 0:51 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-05 11:09 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-03-01 18:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 5/7] nfp: switch to devlink_port_get_phys_port_name() Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-01 18:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 6/7] devlink: introduce port's peer netdevs Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-01 18:04 ` [PATCH net-next v2 7/7] nfp: expose PF " Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-02 10:13 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] devlink: expose PF and VF representors as ports Jiri Pirko
2019-03-02 19:49 ` [oss-drivers] " Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-04 5:12 ` Parav Pandit
2019-03-04 18:22 ` David Miller
2019-03-20 20:25 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-03-21 9:11 ` Jiri Pirko
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