netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] bnxt_en: devlink param updates

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Date:   Fri, 14 Sep 2018 09:47:07 +0530
From:   Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@...adcom.com>
To:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "michael.chan@...adcom.com" <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, alexander.duyck@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] bnxt_en: devlink param updates

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 3:20 PM Jakub Kicinski
<jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:09:37 +0530, Vasundhara Volam wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 5:04 PM Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 14:14:57 +0530, Vasundhara Volam wrote:
> > > > This patchset adds support for 4 generic and 1 driver-specific devlink
> > > > parameters.
> > > >
> > > > Also, this patchset adds support to return proper error code if
> > > > HWRM_NVM_GET/SET_VARIABLE commands return error code
> > > > HWRM_ERR_CODE_RESOURCE_ACCESS_DENIED.
> > > >
> > > > Vasundhara Volam (8):
> > > >   devlink: Add generic parameter hw_tc_offload
> > >
> > > Much like Jiri, I can't help but wonder why do you need this?
> >
> > There is a request from our customer for a way to toggle tc_offload
> > feature in our adapter.
>
> Vasundhara, again, we don't need to know who asked you to do this, but
> _why_.  What problem are you solving?  What is the customer trying to
> achieve?
For Brand new big features like TC_offload, few customers are not willing
to enable it by default in the adapter(Firmware). This was a subjective decision
to disable TC_offload by default in the adapter.
>
> > > >   devlink: Add generic parameter ignore_ari
> > > >   devlink: Add generic parameter msix_vec_per_pf_max
> > > >   devlink: Add generic parameter msix_vec_per_pf_min
> > >
> > > IMHO more structured API would be preferable if possible.  The string
> > > keys won't scale if you want to set the parameters per PF, and
> > > creating more structured API for PCIe which is a relatively slow
> > > moving HW spec seems tractable.
> >
> > Sorry, could you please suggest an example? We will try to adapt.
>
> My thinking was that the same way devlink device has ports, it should
> have PCIe functions as objects which then have attributes.  Instead of
> making everything a string-identified device attribute.  But I'm not
> dead set on this if others don't think its a good idea.
Actually this parameters are for the port but the value given to this param
is applicable for individual PF. That's the reason I have added "per_pf" string.
If you think this is not a good idea, I can move this params to driver-specific.