From: Gal Pressman <galpress@amazon.com>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>, <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-next] RDMA/nldev: Add parent bdf to device information dump
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 16:11:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0825e1bf-f913-d2c1-ad3f-35ba3d6b75ef@amazon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201103135719.GK5429@unreal>
On 03/11/2020 15:57, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 09:45:22AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 03:26:27PM +0200, Gal Pressman wrote:
>>> Add the ability to query the device's bdf through rdma tool netlink
>>> command (in addition to the sysfs infra).
>>>
>>> In case of virtual devices (rxe/siw), the netdev bdf will be shown.
>>
>> Why? What is the use case?
>
> Right, and why isn't netdev (RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_NDEV_NAME) enough?
When taking system topology into consideration you need some way to pair the
ibdev and bdf, especially when working with multiple devices.
The netdev name doesn't exist on devices with no netdevs (IB, EFA).
Why rdma tool? Because it's more intuitive than sysfs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-03 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-03 13:26 [PATCH for-next] RDMA/nldev: Add parent bdf to device information dump Gal Pressman
2020-11-03 13:31 ` Parav Pandit
2020-11-03 13:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-03 13:57 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-11-03 14:11 ` Gal Pressman [this message]
2020-11-03 14:22 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-03 15:45 ` Gal Pressman
2020-11-05 20:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-08 13:03 ` Gal Pressman
2020-11-08 14:36 ` Parav Pandit
2020-11-08 23:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-09 5:09 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-11-09 9:03 ` Gal Pressman
2020-11-09 11:55 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-11-09 12:27 ` Gal Pressman
2020-11-09 12:32 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-11-09 12:47 ` Gal Pressman
2020-11-09 13:02 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-11-09 13:52 ` Gal Pressman
2020-11-09 14:12 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-11-09 9:03 ` Gal Pressman
2020-11-09 17:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-10 7:49 ` Gal Pressman
2020-11-10 13:41 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-10 13:54 ` Leon Romanovsky
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