netdev - Re: [PATCH mlx5-next v7 0/4] Dynamically assign MSI-X vectors count

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Message-ID: <20210330194716.GV2710221@ziepe.ca>
Date:   Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:47:16 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
        Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        linux-pci <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Don Dutile <ddutile@...hat.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mlx5-next v7 0/4] Dynamically assign MSI-X vectors count

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 10:00:19AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 10:57:38AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 08:29:49PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > 
> > > I think I misunderstood Greg's subdirectory comment.  We already have
> > > directories like this:
> > 
> > Yes, IIRC, Greg's remark applies if you have to start creating
> > directories with manual kobjects.
> > 
> > > and aspm_ctrl_attr_group (for "link") is nicely done with static
> > > attributes.  So I think we could do something like this:
> > > 
> > >   /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/   # PF directory
> > >     sriov/                             # SR-IOV related stuff
> > >       vf_total_msix
> > >       vf_msix_count_BB:DD.F        # includes bus/dev/fn of first VF
> > >       ...
> > >       vf_msix_count_BB:DD.F        # includes bus/dev/fn of last VF
> > 
> > It looks a bit odd that it isn't a subdirectory, but this seems
> > reasonable.
> 
> Sorry, I missed your point; you'll have to lay it out more explicitly.
> I did intend that "sriov" *is* a subdirectory of the 0000:01:00.0
> directory.  The full paths would be:
>
>   /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/sriov/vf_total_msix
>   /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/sriov/vf_msix_count_BB:DD.F
>   ...

Sorry, I was meaning what you first proposed:

   /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/sriov/BB:DD.F/vf_msix_count

Which has the extra sub directory to organize the child VFs.

Keep in mind there is going to be alot of VFs here, > 1k - so this
will be a huge directory.

Jason