Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/4] Get IB port and node GUIDs through rtnetlink

[Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 07:25:02AM +0000, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 03:31:21PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This series from Danit extends RTNETLINK to provide IB port and node
> > GUIDs, which were configured for Infiniband VFs.
> >
> > The functionality to set VF GUIDs already existed for a long time, and here
> > we are adding the missing "get" so that netlink will be symmetric
> > and various cloud orchestration tools will be able to manage such
> > VFs more naturally.
> >
> > The iproute2 was extended too to present those GUIDs.
> >
> > - ip link show <device>
> >
> > For example:
> > - ip link set ib4 vf 0 node_guid 22:44:33:00:33:11:00:33
> > - ip link set ib4 vf 0 port_guid 10:21:33:12:00:11:22:10
> > - ip link show ib4
> >     ib4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 4092 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 256
> >     link/infiniband 00:00:0a:2d:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:ec:0d:9a:03:00:44:36:8d brd 00:ff:ff:ff:ff:12:40:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff
> >     vf 0     link/infiniband 00:00:0a:2d:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:ec:0d:9a:03:00:44:36:8d brd 00:ff:ff:ff:ff:12:40:1b:ff:ff:00:00:00:00:00:00:ff:ff:ff:ff,
> >     spoof checking off, NODE_GUID 22:44:33:00:33:11:00:33, PORT_GUID 10:21:33:12:00:11:22:10, link-state disable, trust off, query_rss off
> >
> > Due to the fact that this series touches both net and RDMA, we assume
> > that it needs to be applied to our shared branch (mlx5-next) and pulled
> > later by Dave and Doug/Jason.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Danit Goldberg (4):
> >   net/core: Add support for getting VF GUIDs
> >   IB/core: Add interfaces to get VF node and port GUIDs
> >   IB/ipoib: Add ndo operation for getting VFs GUID attributes
> >   IB/mlx5: Implement callbacks for getting VFs GUID attributes
>
> Dave,
>
> I see that you marked these patches as "not applicable" in patchworks.
>
> Can I assume that you are OK with them and we can take them through RDMA
> tree? If yes, can you give your Ack on the first patch?

Kindly reminder.

Thanks

>
> Thanks