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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Michael Guralnik <michaelgur@nvidia.com>,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Chiara Meiohas <cmeiohas@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC iproute2-next 2/4] rdma: Add support for rdma monitor
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 12:54:59 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240904155459.GK3915968@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240902181252.GG4026@unreal>

On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 09:12:52PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:

> > That's a big assumption.
> > 
> > It is trivial to convert indices to names, so this can be readable for both.
> 
> We had an internal discussion about this earlier today and came to same
> conclusion that we will convert indexes to names in the rdmatool without
> need to change the kernel API.

I think you need both, no automation should be using the names since
they can be renamed in racey way, everything must use only indexes.

We've had issues here in the past with tools racing against systemd
renaming the interface at hotplug time.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-04 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-01  0:54 [RFC iproute2-next 0/4] Add RDMA monitor support Michael Guralnik
2024-09-01  0:54 ` [RFC iproute2-next 1/4] rdma: Update uapi header Michael Guralnik
2024-09-01  0:54 ` [RFC iproute2-next 2/4] rdma: Add support for rdma monitor Michael Guralnik
2024-09-01 15:44   ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-09-02  2:22   ` David Ahern
2024-09-02  7:54     ` Leon Romanovsky
2024-09-02 16:55       ` David Ahern
2024-09-02 18:12         ` Leon Romanovsky
2024-09-04 15:54           ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2024-09-01  0:54 ` [RFC iproute2-next 3/4] rdma: Expose whether RDMA monitoring is supported Michael Guralnik
2024-09-01  0:54 ` [RFC iproute2-next 4/4] rdma: Fix typo in rdma-link man page Michael Guralnik

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