Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 05:04:01PM CET, jakub.kicin...@netronome.com wrote: >On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 08:25:57 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> >> I think it would be beneficial to have the switchid shown for devlink >> >> ports too. Then it is clean that the devlink ports with the same >> >> switchid belong to the same switch, and other ports under the same >> >> devlink instance (like PF itself) is separate, but still under the same >> >> ASIC. >> > >> >Sure, you mean in terms of UI - user space can do a link dump or get >> >that from sysfs, right? >> >> I thinking about moving it to devlink. I'll work on it more today. > >At the kernel level? Are we sure this is appropriate? I'd think >switchid is in essence a forwarding attribute, so it belongs with >netdevs, no?
It's an id which identifies ports which belong to the same switch. Internally in kernel it is used for forwarding purposes. But it is exposed to user too. I believe it is a nice way to see which devlink ports belong to switch and which not. Please see the RFC I send today.
