netdev - Re: [RFC iproute2 0/8] RDMA tool

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Date:   Thu, 4 May 2017 15:26:13 -0400
From:   Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...el.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@...disk.com>
Cc:     "jiri@...lanox.com" <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "ram.amrani@...ium.com" <ram.amrani@...ium.com>,
        "sagi@...mberg.me" <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        "ogerlitz@...lanox.com" <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
        "hch@....de" <hch@....de>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com" <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
        "stephen@...workplumber.org" <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        "dledford@...hat.com" <dledford@...hat.com>,
        "ariela@...lanox.com" <ariela@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC iproute2 0/8] RDMA tool

On 05/04/2017 02:45 PM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 06:30:27PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 21:25 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 06:10:54PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 21:02 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>>>>> Following our discussion both in mailing list [1] and at the LPC 2016 [2],
>>>>> we would like to propose this RDMA tool to be part of iproute2 package
>>>>> and finally improve this situation.
>>>>
>>>> Hello Leon,
>>>>
>>>> Although I really appreciate your work: can you clarify why you would like to
>>>> add *RDMA* functionality to an *IP routing* tool? I haven't found any motivation
>>>> for adding RDMA functionality to iproute2 in [1].
>>>
>>> We are planning to reuse the same infrastructure provided by iproute2,
>>> like netlink parsing, access to distributions, same CLI and same standards.
>>>
>>> Right now, RDMA is already tightened to netdev: iWARP, RoCE, IPoIB, HFI-VNIC.
>>> Many drivers (mlx, qed, i40, cxgb) are sharing code between net and
>>> RDMA.
>>>
>>> I do expect that iproute2 will be installed on every machine with any
>>> type of connection, including IB and OPA.
>>>
>>> So I think that it is enough to be part of that suite and don't invent
>>> our own for one specific tool.
>>
>> Hello Leon,
>>
>> Sorry but to me that sounds like a weak argument for including RDMA functionality
>> in iproute2. There is already a library for communication over netlink sockets,
>> namely libnl. Is there functionality that is in iproute2 but not in libnl and
>> that is needed for the new tool? If so, have you considered to create a new
>> library for that functionality?
>
> It is not hard to create new tool, the hardest part is to ensure that it is
> part of the distributions. Did you count how many months we are trying to
> add rdma-core to debian?

I do agree that it is a strange pairing and am not really a fan. However 
at the end of the day it's just a name for a repo/package. If the 
iproute folks are fine to include rdma in their repo/package, great we 
can leverage their code for CLI and other common stuff.

Now if the interface was something like "ip -FlagForRdma ..." I would 
object to that, but the interface is "rdma ... " so from users 
perspective it's different tools. They don't need to care that it was 
sourced from a common git repo.

Just as an aside this already works a bit with OPA:

  $ ./rdma link
1/1: hfi1_0/1: ifname NONE cap_mask 0x00410022 lid 0x1 lid_mask_count 0 
link_layer InfiniBand
          phys_state 5: LinkUp rate 100 Gb/sec (4X EDR) sm_lid 0x1 sm_sl 
0 state 4: ACTIVE

Leon I'll get you more feedback and testing, I've just been really 
bogged down this week, sorry.

-Denny