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

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Date:   Mon, 23 Mar 2020 20:41:16 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] current devlink extension plan for NICs

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).

> 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. 

If VF starts requesting nested network IDs those should be in a
separate namespace from the the "outer" ones, no?

> 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 don't feel very strongly about this, but given how many Linux
instances run in the cloud it'd seem nice if we had some APIs to meet
their basic needs.