netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next 00/13] resource management using devlink reload

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Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:23:50 +0000
From:   "Saleem, Shiraz" <shiraz.saleem@...el.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC:     Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
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        "jiri@...dia.com" <jiri@...dia.com>,
        "Nguyen, Anthony L" <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
        "Lobakin, Alexandr" <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>,
        "Drewek, Wojciech" <wojciech.drewek@...el.com>,
        "Czapnik, Lukasz" <lukasz.czapnik@...el.com>,
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        "Ismail, Mustafa" <mustafa.ismail@...el.com>,
        "Kitszel, Przemyslaw" <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>,
        "Raczynski, Piotr" <piotr.raczynski@...el.com>,
        "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
        "Ertman, David M" <david.m.ertman@...el.com>,
        "Kaliszczuk, Leszek" <leszek.kaliszczuk@...el.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 00/13] resource management using devlink reload

> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/13] resource management using devlink reload
> 
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 07:36:18PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:38:48 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > I don't think that management of PCI specific parameters in devlink
> > > is right idea. PCI has his own subsystem with rules and assumptions,
> > > netdev shouldn't mangle them.
> >
> > Not netdev, devlink, which covers netdev, RDMA and others.
> 
> devlink is located in net/*, it is netdev.
> Regarding RDMA, it is not fully accurate. We use devlink to convey information to
> FW through pci device located in netdev. Some of such parameters are RDMA
> related. However, we don't configure RDMA properties through devlink, there is a
> special tool for that (rdmatool).

rdmatool though is usable only once the rdma driver probe() completes and the ib_device is registered.
And cannot be used for any configurations at driver init time.

Don't we already have PCI specific parameters managed through devlink today?

https://docs.kernel.org/networking/devlink/devlink-params.html
enable_sriov
ignore_ari
msix_vec_per_pf_max
msix_vec_per_pf_min

How are these in a different bracket from what Michal is trying to do? Or were these ones a bad idea in hindsight?

Shiraz