netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 net-next] Documentation: devlink: Add devlink-sd

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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 14:17:09 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc: William Tu <witu@...dia.com>, Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
 bodong@...dia.com, jiri@...dia.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 saeedm@...dia.com, "aleksander.lobakin@...el.com"
 <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 net-next] Documentation: devlink: Add devlink-sd

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:06:17 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >Gluing to the device is easier, IIUC, once the pool is create we can
> >give it whatever attributes we want. devlink ID, bus/device, netdev,
> >IOMMU domain, anything.  
> 
> I'm confused. Above (***) you say that the shared pool is created upon
> first netdev creation. Now you indicate the user creates it and then
> "binds" it to some object (like devlink).
> 
> So, do you think there should be 2 types of pools:
> 1) implicit upon netdev creation
> 2) explicit defined by the user?

Implicitly, "once the pool is create[d]" does not say that user created
the pool. The flow would be more like:
 - user changes configuration "rules"
 - if device is running && config changed:
   - core instantiates the new pools
   - core issues "reset" request to the device to rebuild queues
   - core shuts down old pools