Re: [patch net-next v2 1/3] net: devlink: allow to change namespaces

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 8/2/19 1:48 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 09:58:10PM CEST, dsahern@gmail.com wrote:
>> On 7/31/19 1:46 PM, David Ahern wrote:
>>> On 7/31/19 1:45 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>>>> check. e.g., what happens if a resource controller has been configured
>>>>> for the devlink instance and it is moved to a namespace whose existing
>>>>> config exceeds those limits?
>>>>
>>>> It's moved with all the values. The whole instance is moved.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The values are moved, but the FIB in a namespace could already contain
>>> more routes than the devlink instance allows.
>>>
>>
>>From a quick test your recent refactoring to netdevsim broke the
>> resource controller. It was, and is intended to be, per network namespace.
> 
> unifying devlink instances with network namespace in netdevsim was
> really odd. Netdevsim is also a device, like any other. With other
> devices, you do not do this so I don't see why to do this with netdevsim.
> 
> Now you create netdevsim instance in sysfs, there is proper bus probe
> mechanism done, there is a devlink instance created for this device,
> there are netdevices and devlink ports created. Same as for the real
> hardware.
> 
> Honestly, creating a devlink instance per-network namespace
> automagically, no relation to netdevsim devices, that is simply wrong.
> There should be always 1:1 relationshin between a device and devlink
> instance.
> 

Jiri: prior to your recent change netdevsim had a fib resource
controller per network namespace. Please return that behavior or revert
the change.