From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
To: Mukesh Kacker <mukesh.kacker-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/ipoib: Enable pkey and device name decoupling
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:38:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170928163824.GC17880@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c98fc5c0-cb34-c960-4bbf-34422bbacd0e-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:03:40PM -0700, Mukesh Kacker wrote:
> Having devices with names like ib0.datanet, ib1.cellnet or any other
> ib<N>.<string> simplifies that life of people designing the management tools
> for networks and integrating them for the use case of renumbering of pkeys.
You should already be able to rename ipoib devices via 'ip link set name' - why
didn't you use that to get your names?
Do you need atomicity for some reason??
> variant if it requires using device name with pkey values at any stage in
> the use case. Same for delete_named_child.
delete_named_child is ugly, it should be a netlink command, and it
should use a ifindex, not name.
Jason
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-27 9:32 [PATCH] IB/ipoib: Enable pkey and device name decoupling Yuval Shaia
[not found] ` <20170927093248.3819-1-yuval.shaia-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-27 14:14 ` Doug Ledford
2017-09-27 15:01 ` Leon Romanovsky
[not found] ` <20170927150140.GF2297-U/DQcQFIOTAAJjI8aNfphQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-27 19:03 ` Mukesh Kacker
[not found] ` <c98fc5c0-cb34-c960-4bbf-34422bbacd0e-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-28 13:45 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-09-28 16:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2017-09-27 17:20 ` Mukesh Kacker
[not found] ` <78f7983f-dc6b-a42a-0b29-adb69777fa75-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-27 17:26 ` Yuval Shaia
2017-09-28 16:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
[not found] ` <20170928163406.GB17880-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-28 16:47 ` Leon Romanovsky
[not found] ` <20170928164735.GC2297-U/DQcQFIOTAAJjI8aNfphQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-28 16:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
[not found] ` <20170928165305.GE17880-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-28 17:08 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-10-15 5:47 ` Yuval Shaia
2017-10-15 6:27 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-10-17 8:18 ` Jason Gunthorpe
[not found] ` <20171017081837.GA19107-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2017-10-17 10:21 ` Leon Romanovsky
[not found] ` <20171017102121.GM2106-U/DQcQFIOTAAJjI8aNfphQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-10-19 6:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
[not found] ` <20171019061100.GB6555-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2017-10-19 6:14 ` Leon Romanovsky
[not found] ` <20171019061405.GW2106-U/DQcQFIOTAAJjI8aNfphQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-10-19 6:28 ` Alex Vesker
[not found] ` <c2f3b529-cc53-aef0-fdcf-e86e99360db0-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2017-10-21 19:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
[not found] ` <20171021194215.GA4094-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2017-10-23 6:04 ` Leon Romanovsky
[not found] ` <20171023060436.GD2106-U/DQcQFIOTAAJjI8aNfphQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-10-23 15:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe
[not found] ` <20171023152340.GA11952-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2017-10-23 17:03 ` Leon Romanovsky
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