On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 07:48:40 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 07:13:44AM CEST, jakub.kicin...@netronome.com wrote:
> >We are still in position where we can suggest uniform naming
> >convention for ndo_get_phys_port_name(). switchdev.txt file
> >already contained a suggestion of how to name external ports.
> >Since the use of switchdev for SR-IOV NIC's eswitches is growing,
> >establish a format for ports of those devices as well.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com>
> >---
> > Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt | 14 +++++++++++---
> > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
> >b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
> >index 3e7b946dea27..7c4b6025fb4b 100644
> >--- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
> >+++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
> >@@ -119,9 +119,17 @@ into 4 10G ports, resulting in 4 port netdevs, the
> >device can give a unique
> > SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{phys_switch_id}=="<phys_switch_id>", \
> > ATTR{phys_port_name}!="", NAME="swX$attr{phys_port_name}"
> >
> >-Suggested naming convention is "swXpYsZ", where X is the switch name or ID,
> >Y
> >-is the port name or ID, and Z is the sub-port name or ID. For example,
> >sw1p1s0
> >-would be sub-port 0 on port 1 on switch 1.
> >+Suggested formats of the port name returned by ndo_get_phys_port_name are:
> >+ - pA for external ports;
> >+ - pAsB for split external ports;
> >+ - pfC for PF ports (so called PF representors);
> >+ - pfCvfD for VF ports (so called VF representors).
>
> I think it would make sense if the driver would just fill-up a struct in
> the ndo call and core would generate the string.
I do like the idea of core generating the string. I have a temptation
to try to involve devlink in this somehow, since port id and split info
is already available there. Perhaps that would only overcomplicate
things.
The other question is: can we remove the option to generate an arbitrary
string completely? I think Or and mlx5 folks may object since it would
mean mlx5 VF repr names would change.
