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

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Date:   Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:10:10 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] current devlink extension plan for NICs

On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 11:49:10 -0700 Samudrala, Sridhar wrote:
> On 3/27/2020 9:38 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 08:47:36 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:  
> >>> So the queues, interrupts, and other resources are also part
> >>> of the slice then?  
> >>
> >> Yep, that seems to make sense.
> >>  
> >>> How do slice parameters like rate apply to NVMe?  
> >>
> >> Not really.
> >>  
> >>> Are ports always ethernet? and slices also cover endpoints with
> >>> transport stack offloaded to the NIC?  
> >>
> >> devlink_port now can be either "ethernet" or "infiniband". Perhaps,
> >> there can be port type "nve" which would contain only some of the
> >> config options and would not have a representor "netdev/ibdev" linked.
> >> I don't know.  
> > 
> > I honestly find it hard to understand what that slice abstraction is,
> > and which things belong to slices and which to PCI ports (or why we even
> > have them).  
> 
> Looks like slice is a new term for sub function and we can consider this
> as a VMDQ VSI(intel terminology) or even a Queue group of a VSI.
> 
> Today we expose VMDQ VSI via offloaded MACVLAN. This mechanism should 
> allow us to expose it as a separate netdev.

Kinda. Looks like with the new APIs you guys will definitely be able to
expose VMDQ as a full(er) device, and if memory serves me well that's
what you wanted initially.

But the sub-functions are just a subset of slices, PF and VFs also
have a slice associated with them.. And all those things have a port,
too.

> > With devices like NFP and Mellanox CX3 which have one PCI PF maybe it
> > would have made sense to have a slice that covers multiple ports, but
> > it seems the proposal is to have port to slice mapping be 1:1. And rate
> > in those devices should still be per port not per slice.
> > 
> > But this keeps coming back, and since you guys are doing all the work,
> > if you really really need it..