netdev - Re: [net-next V3 15/15] Documentation: networking: Add description for multi-pf netdev

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Message-ID: <20240228094312.75dde221@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:43:12 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc: "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman
 <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com>, Saeed
 Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Paolo
 Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Saeed
 Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Tariq Toukan
 <tariqt@...dia.com>, Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>, Leon Romanovsky
 <leonro@...dia.com>, jay.vosburgh@...onical.com
Subject: Re: [net-next V3 15/15] Documentation: networking: Add description
 for multi-pf netdev

On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:06:04 -0800 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > >Yes, looks RDMA-centric. RDMA being infamously bonding-challenged.    
> > 
> > Not really. It's just needed to consider all usecases, not only netdev.  
> 
> All use cases or lowest common denominator, depends on priorities.

To be clear, I'm not trying to shut down this proposal, I think both
have disadvantages. This one is better for RDMA and iperf, the explicit
netdevs are better for more advanced TCP apps. All I want is clear docs
so users are not confused, and vendors don't diverge pointlessly.