On 3/22/18 4:55 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com>
>
> This patchset resolves 2 issues we have right now:
> 1) There are many netdevices / ports in the system, for port, pf, vf
> represenatation but the user has no way to see which is which
> 2) The ndo_get_phys_port_name is implemented in each driver separatelly,
> which may lead to inconsistent names between drivers.
Similar to ndo_get_phys_port_{name,id}, devlink requires drivers to opt
in with an implementation right, so you can't really force a solution to
the consistent naming.
>
> This patchset introduces port flavours which should address the first
> problem. I'm testing this with Netronome nfp hardware. When the user
> has 2 physical ports, 1 pf, and 4 vfs, he should see something like this:
> # devlink port
> pci/0000:05:00.0/0: type eth netdev enp5s0np0 flavour physical number 0
> pci/0000:05:00.0/268435456: type eth netdev eth0 flavour physical number 0
> pci/0000:05:00.0/268435460: type eth netdev enp5s0np1 flavour physical number
> 1
> pci/0000:05:00.0/536875008: type eth netdev eth2 flavour pf_rep number
> 536875008
> pci/0000:05:00.0/536870912: type eth netdev eth1 flavour vf_rep number 0
> pci/0000:05:00.0/536870976: type eth netdev eth3 flavour vf_rep number 1
> pci/0000:05:00.0/536871040: type eth netdev eth4 flavour vf_rep number 2
> pci/0000:05:00.0/536871104: type eth netdev eth5 flavour vf_rep number 3
How about 'kind' instead of flavo{u}r?
