netdev - Re: [RFC] current devlink extension plan for NICs

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Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 10:43:57 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] current devlink extension plan for NICs

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 08:41:16PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:50:09 -0300 Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:31:16PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > 
> > > Right, that is the point. It's the host admin that wants the new
> > > entity, so if possible it'd be better if they could just ask for it 
> > > via devlink rather than some cloud API. Not that I'm completely opposed
> > > to a cloud API - just seems unnecessary here.  
> > 
> > The cloud API provides all the permissions checks and security
> > elements. It cannot be avoided.
> 
> Ack, the question is just who consults the cloud API, the Host or the
> SmartNIC (latter would abstract differences between cloud APIs).

I feel it is more natural to use the native cloud API. It will always
have the right feature set and authorization scheme. If we try to make
a lowest common denominator in devlink then it will probably be a poor
match, and possibly very complicated.

We have to support push auto-creation anyhow to make the 'device
pre-exists at boot time' case work right.

> > If you try to do it as you say then it is weird. You have to use the
> > cloud API to authorize the VM to touch a certain network, then the VM
> > has to somehow take that network ID and use devlink to get a netdev
> > for it. And the cloud side has to protect against a hostile VM sending
> > garbage along this communication channel.
> 
> I don't understand how the VM needs to know the network ID, quite the
> opposite, the Network ID should be gettable/settable by the hypervisor/
> /PF.

I don't follow, if I have thousands of vlans in my cloud world I need
some way to label them all. If the VM is going to ask for a specific
vlan to be plugged into it, then it needs to ask with the right label.

> > vs simply host plugging in the correct network fully operational when
> > the cloud API connects the VM to the network.
> 
> That means the user has to pre-allocate the device ID, or query the
> cloud API after the device is created about its attributes (in the case
> of two interfaces being requested simultaneously).

I suppose it would use MAC address matching, the cloud creation action
will indicate the MAC and the netdev will appear with that MAC when it
is ready

I think we could do a better job passing some kind of meta-information
into the guest..

Jason