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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ast@kernel.org,
	daniel@iogearbox.net, andrii@kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	hawk@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com,
	toke@redhat.com, memxor@gmail.com, alardam@gmail.com,
	saeedm@nvidia.com, anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com,
	gospo@broadcom.com, vladimir.oltean@nxp.com, nbd@nbd.name,
	john@phrozen.org, leon@kernel.org, simon.horman@corigine.com,
	aelior@marvell.com, christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr,
	ecree.xilinx@gmail.com, mst@redhat.com, bjorn@kernel.org,
	magnus.karlsson@intel.com, maciej.fijalkowski@intel.com,
	intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com,
	niklas.soderlund@corigine.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/7] netdev-genl: create a simple family for netdev stuff
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:01:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230123120101.555a3446@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y82//2EX6QQoZkV/@lore-desk>

On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:15 +0100 Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> > FWIW I'm not 100% sure if we should scope the family to all of netdev
> > or just xdp. Same for the name of the op, should we call the op dev_get
> > or dev_xdp_get..  
> 
> is it likely we are going to add non-xdp info here in the near future? If not
> I would say we can target just xdp for the moment.

What brought it to mind for me was offloads like the NVMe/DDP for
instance. Whether that stuff should live in ethtool or a netdev
family is a bit unclear.

> > These defines don't belong in uAPI. Especially the use of BIT().  
> 
> since netdev xdp_features is a bitmask, can we use 'flags' as type for definitions in
> netdev.yaml so we can get rid of this BIT() definitions for both user and
> kernel space?

If you have no use for the bit numbers - definitely.

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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Cc: mst@redhat.com, vladimir.oltean@nxp.com, ast@kernel.org,
	edumazet@google.com, anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com,
	daniel@iogearbox.net, niklas.soderlund@corigine.com,
	andrii@kernel.org, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org,
	simon.horman@corigine.com, pabeni@redhat.com, aelior@marvell.com,
	hawk@kernel.org, christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr, memxor@gmail.com,
	john@phrozen.org, bjorn@kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
	magnus.karlsson@intel.com, leon@kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, toke@redhat.com, ecree.xilinx@gmail.com,
	alardam@gmail.com, gospo@broadcom.com, saeedm@nvidia.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, nbd@nbd.name
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH bpf-next 1/7] netdev-genl: create a simple family for netdev stuff
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:01:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230123120101.555a3446@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y82//2EX6QQoZkV/@lore-desk>

On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:15 +0100 Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> > FWIW I'm not 100% sure if we should scope the family to all of netdev
> > or just xdp. Same for the name of the op, should we call the op dev_get
> > or dev_xdp_get..  
> 
> is it likely we are going to add non-xdp info here in the near future? If not
> I would say we can target just xdp for the moment.

What brought it to mind for me was offloads like the NVMe/DDP for
instance. Whether that stuff should live in ethtool or a netdev
family is a bit unclear.

> > These defines don't belong in uAPI. Especially the use of BIT().  
> 
> since netdev xdp_features is a bitmask, can we use 'flags' as type for definitions in
> netdev.yaml so we can get rid of this BIT() definitions for both user and
> kernel space?

If you have no use for the bit numbers - definitely.
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-23 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-20 17:16 [PATCH bpf-next 0/7] xdp: introduce xdp-feature support Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-20 17:16 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-20 17:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/7] netdev-genl: create a simple family for netdev stuff Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-20 17:16   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-21  1:19   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2023-01-21  1:19     ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Alexei Starovoitov
2023-01-22 17:45     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-22 17:45       ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-21  3:11   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-21  3:11     ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-22 23:00     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-22 23:00       ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-23 20:01       ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-01-23 20:01         ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-23 23:29         ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-23 23:29           ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-21  4:42   ` kernel test robot
2023-01-21  4:42     ` [Intel-wired-lan] " kernel test robot
2023-01-20 17:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/7] drivers: net: turn on XDP features Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-20 17:16   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-21  3:11   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-21  3:11     ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-22 11:49     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-22 11:49       ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-23 20:03       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-23 20:03         ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-20 17:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next 3/7] xsk: add usage of XDP features flags Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-20 17:16   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-20 17:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next 4/7] libbpf: add the capability to specify netlink proto in libbpf_netlink_send_recv Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-20 17:16   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-20 17:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next 5/7] libbpf: add API to get XDP/XSK supported features Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-20 17:16   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-21  3:20   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-21  3:20     ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-22 12:09     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-22 12:09       ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-20 17:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next 6/7] bpf: devmap: check XDP features in bpf_map_update_elem and __xdp_enqueue Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-20 17:16   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-21  2:02   ` Martin KaFai Lau
2023-01-21  2:02     ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Martin KaFai Lau
2023-01-22 12:13     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-22 12:13       ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-23 20:09       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-23 20:09         ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-23 23:29         ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-23 23:29           ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-20 17:16 ` [PATCH bpf-next 7/7] selftests/bpf: introduce XDP compliance test tool Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-20 17:16   ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-24  6:34   ` Martin KaFai Lau
2023-01-24  6:34     ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Martin KaFai Lau
2023-01-24 11:12     ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2023-01-24 11:12       ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Lorenzo Bianconi

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