Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 08:10:38PM CET, dsah...@gmail.com wrote:
>On 3/22/18 11:49 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 04:34:07PM CET, dsah...@gmail.com wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Yeah, drivers would still have free choice to implemen the ndo
>> themselves. But most of them, like all sriov switch drivers should use
>> the devlink helper to have consistent naming. In other words, devlink
>> helper should be the standard way, in weird cases (like rocker), driver
>> implements it himself.
>
>That's an assumption that somehow the devlink API will be better
>supported than ndo_get_phys_port_{name,id}. Don't get me wrong -- an API
>to show the kind of device is needed, but I do not think this enforces
>any kind of consistency in naming.
So you say that we need to enforce it somehow?
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>
>> Yeah, kind is often used in kernel already with different meaning
>> git grep kind net/core
>> I wanted to avoid confusions
>
>Roopa's amendment works as well; I just think flavor / flavour is the
>wrong word. Make me thinks of food ... ice cream vs netdevices.
Ok
