netdev - Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/4] Get IB port and node GUIDs through rtnetlink

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Message-ID: <20191118072500.GI4716@unreal>
Date:   Mon, 18 Nov 2019 07:25:02 +0000
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        Danit Goldberg <danitg@...lanox.com>,
        linux-netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/4] Get IB port and node GUIDs through
 rtnetlink

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 03:31:21PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> This series from Danit extends RTNETLINK to provide IB port and node
> GUIDs, which were configured for Infiniband VFs.
>
> The functionality to set VF GUIDs already existed for a long time, and here
> we are adding the missing "get" so that netlink will be symmetric
> and various cloud orchestration tools will be able to manage such
> VFs more naturally.
>
> The iproute2 was extended too to present those GUIDs.
>
> - ip link show <device>
>
> For example:
> - ip link set ib4 vf 0 node_guid 22:44:33:00:33:11:00:33
> - ip link set ib4 vf 0 port_guid 10:21:33:12:00:11:22:10
> - ip link show ib4
>     ib4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 4092 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 256
>     link/infiniband 00:00:0a:2d:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:ec:0d:9a:03:00:44:36:8d brd 00:ff:ff:ff:ff:12:40:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     vf 0     link/infiniband 00:00:0a:2d:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:ec:0d:9a:03:00:44:36:8d brd 00:ff:ff:ff:ff:12:40:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff,
>     spoof checking off, NODE_GUID 22:44:33:00:33:11:00:33, PORT_GUID 10:21:33:12:00:11:22:10, link-state disable, trust off, query_rss off
>
> Due to the fact that this series touches both net and RDMA, we assume
> that it needs to be applied to our shared branch (mlx5-next) and pulled
> later by Dave and Doug/Jason.
>
> Thanks
>
> Danit Goldberg (4):
>   net/core: Add support for getting VF GUIDs
>   IB/core: Add interfaces to get VF node and port GUIDs
>   IB/ipoib: Add ndo operation for getting VFs GUID attributes
>   IB/mlx5: Implement callbacks for getting VFs GUID attributes

Dave,

I see that you marked these patches as "not applicable" in patchworks.

Can I assume that you are OK with them and we can take them through RDMA
tree? If yes, can you give your Ack on the first patch?

Thanks