Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 07:26:06AM CEST, ido...@mellanox.com wrote: >On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 02:17:39PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: >> Out of curiosity - are you guys considering adding CPU flavour ports, >> or is there a good reason not to have it exposed? > >Yes, we are considering that. In fact, Alexander (Cc-ed) just asked me if >it is possible to monitor the occupancy in the egress CPU pool. This is >impossible without exposing the CPU port and it would have saved us a >lot of time while debugging these issues. > >Do you need this functionality for nfp as well? If so, do you have any >thoughts about it? My thinking is that it would be a devlink port >without a backing netdev.
Similar to CPU port in DSA. It also does not have netdev associated with it. We can use the same port flavour: DEVLINK_PORT_FLAVOUR_CPU
