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Message-ID: <ZquJWp8GxSCmuipW@nanopsycho.orion>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 15:10:50 +0200
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Madhu Chittim <madhu.chittim@...el.com>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
	Sunil Kovvuri Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/12] netlink: spec: add shaper YAML spec

Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 10:39:45PM CEST, pabeni@...hat.com wrote:
>Define the user-space visible interface to query, configure and delete
>network shapers via yaml definition.
>
>Add dummy implementations for the relevant NL callbacks.
>
>set() and delete() operations touch a single shaper creating/updating or
>deleting it.
>The group() operation creates a shaper's group, nesting multiple input
>shapers under the specified output shaper.
>
>Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
>---
>RFC v1 -> RFC v2:
> - u64 -> uint
> - net_shapers -> net-shapers
> - documented all the attributes
> - dropped [ admin-perm ] for get() op
> - group op
> - set/delete touch a single shaper
>---
> Documentation/netlink/specs/shaper.yaml | 262 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> MAINTAINERS                             |   1 +
> include/uapi/linux/net_shaper.h         |  74 +++++++
> net/Kconfig                             |   3 +
> net/Makefile                            |   1 +
> net/shaper/Makefile                     |   9 +
> net/shaper/shaper.c                     |  34 +++
> net/shaper/shaper_nl_gen.c              | 117 +++++++++++
> net/shaper/shaper_nl_gen.h              |  27 +++
> 9 files changed, 528 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/netlink/specs/shaper.yaml
> create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/net_shaper.h
> create mode 100644 net/shaper/Makefile
> create mode 100644 net/shaper/shaper.c
> create mode 100644 net/shaper/shaper_nl_gen.c
> create mode 100644 net/shaper/shaper_nl_gen.h
>
>diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/shaper.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/shaper.yaml
>new file mode 100644
>index 000000000000..7327f5596fdb
>--- /dev/null
>+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/shaper.yaml
>@@ -0,0 +1,262 @@
>+# SPDX-License-Identifier: ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)
>+
>+name: net-shaper
>+
>+doc: Network device HW Rate Limiting offload
>+
>+definitions:
>+  -
>+    type: enum
>+    name: scope
>+    doc: the different scopes where a shaper can be attached
>+    render-max: true
>+    entries:
>+      - name: unspec
>+        doc: The scope is not specified
>+      -
>+        name: port
>+        doc: The root for the whole H/W

What is this "port"?


>+      -
>+        name: netdev
>+        doc: The main shaper for the given network device.
>+      -
>+        name: queue
>+        doc: The shaper is attached to the given device queue.
>+      -
>+        name: detached
>+        doc: |
>+             The shaper is not attached to any user-visible network
>+             device component and allows nesting and grouping of
>+             queues or others detached shapers.

What is the purpose of the "detached" thing?



>+  -
>+    type: enum
>+    name: metric
>+    doc: different metric each shaper can support
>+    entries:
>+      -
>+        name: bps
>+        doc: Shaper operates on a bits per second basis
>+      -
>+        name: pps
>+        doc: Shaper operates on a packets per second basis
>+

[..]


>+
>+operations:
>+  list:
>+    -
>+      name: get
>+      doc: |
>+        Get / Dump information about a/all the shaper for a given device
>+      attribute-set: net-shaper
>+
>+      do:
>+        request:
>+          attributes:
>+            - ifindex
>+            - handle
>+        reply:
>+          attributes: &ns-attrs
>+            - parent
>+            - handle
>+            - metric
>+            - bw-min
>+            - bw-max
>+            - burst
>+            - priority
>+            - weight
>+
>+      dump:
>+        request:
>+          attributes:
>+            - ifindex
>+        reply:
>+          attributes: *ns-attrs
>+    -
>+      name: set
>+      doc: |
>+        Create or configures the specified shaper.
>+        On failures the extack is set accordingly.
>+        Can't create @detached scope shaper, use
>+        the @group operation instead.
>+      attribute-set: net-shaper
>+      flags: [ admin-perm ]
>+
>+      do:
>+        request:
>+          attributes:
>+            - ifindex
>+            - shaper
>+
>+    -
>+      name: delete
>+      doc: |
>+        Clear (remove) the specified shaper. If after the removal
>+        the parent shaper has no more children and the parent
>+        shaper scope is @detached, even the parent is deleted,
>+        recursively.
>+        On failures the extack is set accordingly.
>+      attribute-set: net-shaper
>+      flags: [ admin-perm ]
>+
>+      do:
>+        request:
>+          attributes:
>+            - ifindex
>+            - handle
>+
>+    -
>+      name: group
>+      doc: |
>+        Group the specified input shapers under the specified
>+        output shaper, eventually creating the latter, if needed.
>+        Input shapers scope must be either @queue or @detached.
>+        Output shaper scope must be either @detached or @netdev.
>+        When using an output @detached scope shaper, if the
>+        @handle @id is not specified, a new shaper of such scope
>+        is created and, otherwise the specified output shaper
>+        must be already existing.

I'm lost. Could this designt be described in details in the doc I asked
in the cover letter? :/ Please.


>+        The operation is atomic, on failures the extack is set
>+        accordingly and no change is applied to the device
>+        shaping configuration, otherwise the output shaper
>+        handle is provided as reply.
>+      attribute-set: net-shaper

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