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From: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>,
	David M <david.m.ertman@intel.com>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"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>,
	Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>,
	"Jason Wang (jasowang@redhat.com)" <jasowang@redhat.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 00/19] Mellanox, mlx5 sub function support
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:58:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM0PR05MB4866A5F11AED9ABA70FAE7EED1740@AM0PR05MB4866.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191111141732.GB2202@nanopsycho>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2019 8:18 AM
> Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 08:48:31PM CET, parav@mellanox.com wrote:
> >
> >> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
> >> Sent: Friday, November 8, 2019 6:57 PM
> >> > We should be creating 3 different buses, instead of mdev bus being
> >> > de-
> >> multiplexer of that?
> >> >
> >> > Hence, depending the device flavour specified, create such device
> >> > on right
> >> bus?
> >> >
> >> > For example,
> >> > $ devlink create subdev pci/0000:05:00.0 flavour virtio name foo
> >> > subdev_id 1 $ devlink create subdev pci/0000:05:00.0 flavour mdev
> >> > <uuid> subdev_id 2 $ devlink create subdev pci/0000:05:00.0 flavour
> >> > mlx5 id 1 subdev_id 3
> >>
> >> I like the idea of specifying what kind of interface you want at sub
> >> device creation time. It fits the driver model pretty well and
> >> doesn't require abusing the vfio mdev for binding to a netdev driver.
> >>
> >> > $ devlink subdev pci/0000:05:00.0/<subdev_id> config <params> $
> >> > echo <respective_device_id> <sysfs_path>/bind
> >>
> >> Is explicit binding really needed?
> >No.
> >
> >> If you specify a vfio flavour why shouldn't the vfio driver autoload
> >> and bind to it right away? That is kind of the point of the driver
> >> model...
> >>
> >It some configuration is needed that cannot be passed at device creation
> time, explicit bind later can be used.
> >
> >> (kind of related, but I don't get while all that GUID and lifecycle
> >> stuff in mdev should apply for something like a SF)
> >>
> >GUID is just the name of the device.
> >But lets park this aside for a moment.
> >
> >> > Implement power management callbacks also on all above 3 buses?
> >> > Abstract out mlx5_bus into more generic virtual bus (vdev bus?) so
> >> > that multiple vendors can reuse?
> >>
> >> In this specific case, why does the SF in mlx5 mode even need a bus?
> >> Is it only because of devlink? That would be unfortunate
> >>
> >Devlink is one part due to identifying using bus/dev.
> >How do we refer to its devlink instance of SF without bus/device?
> 
> Question is, why to have devlink instance for SF itself. Same as VF, you don't
mlx5_core has devlink instance for PF and VF for long time now.
Health report, txq/rxq dumps etc all anchored to this devlink instance even for VF. (similar to PF).
And so, SF same framework should work for SF.

> need devlink instance. You only need devlink_port (or
> devlink_subdev) instance on the PF devlink parent for it.
> 
Devlink_port or devlink_subdev are still on eswitch or mgmt side.
They are not present on the side where devlink instance exist on side where txq/rxq/eq etc exist.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-11 14:58 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
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 [this message]
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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