netdev - Re: [PATCH V2 net 00/11] Extending the ena driver to support new features and enhance performance

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Message-ID: <9057E288-28BA-4865-B41A-5847EE41D66F@amazon.com>
Date:   Fri, 7 Jun 2019 01:04:14 +0000
From:   "Bshara, Nafea" <nafea@...zon.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
CC:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Jubran, Samih" <sameehj@...zon.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        "Kiyanovski, Arthur" <akiyano@...zon.com>,
        "Bshara, Saeed" <saeedb@...zon.com>,
        "Tzalik, Guy" <gtzalik@...zon.com>,
        "Matushevsky, Alexander" <matua@...zon.com>,
        "Liguori, Anthony" <aliguori@...zon.com>,
        "Saidi, Ali" <alisaidi@...zon.com>,
        "Machulsky, Zorik" <zorik@...zon.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Wilson, Matt" <msw@...zon.com>,
        "Belgazal, Netanel" <netanel@...zon.com>,
        "Herrenschmidt, Benjamin" <benh@...zon.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 net 00/11] Extending the ena driver to support new
 features and enhance performance



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On Jun 6, 2019, at 4:43 PM, Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com> wrote:

>>> Okay, then you know which one is which.  Are there multiple ENAs but
>>> one EFA?
>> 
>> Yes,  very possible. Very common
>> 
>> Typical use case that instances have one ena for control plane, one
>> for internet facing , and one 100G ena that also have efa capabilities
> 
> I see, and those are PCI devices..  Some form of platform data would
> seem like the best fit to me.  There is something called:
> 
> /sys/bus/pci/${dbdf}/label
> 
> It seems to come from some ACPI table - DSM maybe?  I think you can put
> whatever string you want there 🤔

Acpi path won’t work, much of thee interface are hot attached, using native pcie hot plug and acpi won’t be involved.