From: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 08:59:01 +0100
> From: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]> > > Arkadi says: > > Many of the ASIC's internal resources are limited and are shared between > several hardware procedures. For example, unified hash-based memory can > be used for many lookup purposes, like FDB and LPM. In many cases the user > can provide a partitioning scheme for such a resource in order to perform > fine tuning for his application. In such cases performing driver reload is > needed for the changes to take place, thus this patchset also adds support > for hot reload. > > Such an abstraction can be coupled with devlink's dpipe interface, which > models the ASIC's pipeline as a graph of match/action tables. By modeling > the hardware resource object, and by coupling it to several dpipe tables, > further visibility can be achieved in order to debug ASIC-wide issues. > > The proposed interface will provide the user the ability to understand the > limitations of the hardware, and receive notification regarding its occupancy. > Furthermore, monitoring the resource occupancy can be done in real-time and > can be useful in many cases. Series applied, thank you.
