Re: [PATCH net 2/3] net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:01:18 +0800 Jianbo Liu wrote:
> On 9/10/2025 9:23 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 13:07:05 +0300 Tariq Toukan wrote:  
> >> If the PF's netns has been moved and differs from the devlink's netns,
> >> enabling switchdev mode would create an invalid state where
> >> representors and PF exist in different namespaces.
> >>
> >> To prevent this inconsistent configuration,  
> > 
> > Could you explain clearly what is the problem with having different
> > netdevs in different namespaces? From networking perspective it really
> > doesn't matter.  
> 
> There is a requirement from customer who wants to manage openvswitch in 
> a container. But he can't complete the steps (changing eswitch and 
> configuring OVS) in the container if the netns are different.

You're preventing a configuration which you think is "bad" (for a
reason unknown). How is _rejecting_ a config enabling you to fulfill
some "customer requirement" which sounds like having all interfaces 
in a separate ns?

> Besides, ibdev is dependent on netdev, there is refcnt issue if netdev 
> is moved to other netns but devlink netns is not changed by "devlink dev 
> reload netns" command.

shrug