Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net/smc: use the correct ndev to find pnetid by pnetid table

Paolo Abeni
2025-03-11T09:00:02Z

On 3/4/25 1:43 PM, Guangguan Wang wrote:
> When using smc_pnet in SMC, it will only search the pnetid in the
> base_ndev of the netdev hierarchy(both HW PNETID and User-defined
> sw pnetid). This may not work for some scenarios when using SMC in
> container on cloud environment.
> In container, there have choices of different container network,
> such as directly using host network, virtual network IPVLAN, veth,
> etc. Different choices of container network have different netdev
> hierarchy. Examples of netdev hierarchy show below. (eth0 and eth1
> in host below is the netdev directly related to the physical device).
> _______________________________
> | _________________ |
> | |POD | |
> | | | |
> | | eth0_________ | |
> | |____| |__| |
> | | | |
> | | | |
> | eth1|base_ndev| eth0_______ |
> | | | | RDMA ||
> | host |_________| |_______||
> ---------------------------------
> netdev hierarchy if directly using host network
> ________________________________
> | _________________ |
> | |POD __________ | |
> | | |upper_ndev| | |
> | |eth0|__________| | |
> | |_______|_________| |
> | |lower netdev |
> | __|______ |
> | eth1| | eth0_______ |
> | |base_ndev| | RDMA ||
> | host |_________| |_______||
> ---------------------------------
> netdev hierarchy if using IPVLAN
> _______________________________
> | _____________________ |
> | |POD _________ | |
> | | |base_ndev|| |
> | |eth0(veth)|_________|| |
> | |____________|________| |
> | |pairs |
> | _______|_ |
> | | | eth0_______ |
> | veth|base_ndev| | RDMA ||
> | |_________| |_______||
> | _________ |
> | eth1|base_ndev| |
> | host |_________| |
> ---------------------------------
> netdev hierarchy if using veth
> Due to some reasons, the eth1 in host is not RDMA attached netdevice,
> pnetid is needed to map the eth1(in host) with RDMA device so that POD
> can do SMC-R. Because the eth1(in host) is managed by CNI plugin(such
> as Terway, network management plugin in container environment), and in
> cloud environment the eth(in host) can dynamically be inserted by CNI
> when POD create and dynamically be removed by CNI when POD destroy and
> no POD related to the eth(in host) anymore. It is hard to config the
> pnetid to the eth1(in host). But it is easy to config the pnetid to the
> netdevice which can be seen in POD. When do SMC-R, both the container
> directly using host network and the container using veth network can
> successfully match the RDMA device, because the configured pnetid netdev
> is a base_ndev. But the container using IPVLAN can not successfully
> match the RDMA device and 0x03030000 fallback happens, because the
> configured pnetid netdev is not a base_ndev. Additionally, if config
> pnetid to the eth1(in host) also can not work for matching RDMA device
> when using veth network and doing SMC-R in POD.
>
> To resolve the problems list above, this patch extends to search user
> -defined sw pnetid in the clc handshake ndev when no pnetid can be found
> in the base_ndev, and the base_ndev take precedence over ndev for backward
> compatibility. This patch also can unify the pnetid setup of different
> network choices list above in container(Config user-defined sw pnetid in
> the netdevice can be seen in POD).
>
> Signed-off-by: Guangguan Wang <guangguan.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> net/smc/smc_pnet.c | 8 +++++---
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/smc/smc_pnet.c b/net/smc/smc_pnet.c
> index 716808f374a8..b391c2ef463f 100644
> --- a/net/smc/smc_pnet.c
> +++ b/net/smc/smc_pnet.c
> @@ -1079,14 +1079,16 @@ static void smc_pnet_find_roce_by_pnetid(struct net_device *ndev,
> struct smc_init_info *ini)
> {
> u8 ndev_pnetid[SMC_MAX_PNETID_LEN];
> + struct net_device *base_ndev;
> struct net *net;
>
> - ndev = pnet_find_base_ndev(ndev);
> + base_ndev = pnet_find_base_ndev(ndev);
> net = dev_net(ndev);
> - if (smc_pnetid_by_dev_port(ndev->dev.parent, ndev->dev_port,
> + if (smc_pnetid_by_dev_port(base_ndev->dev.parent, base_ndev->dev_port,
> ndev_pnetid) &&
> + smc_pnet_find_ndev_pnetid_by_table(base_ndev, ndev_pnetid) &&
> smc_pnet_find_ndev_pnetid_by_table(ndev, ndev_pnetid)) {
> - smc_pnet_find_rdma_dev(ndev, ini);
> + smc_pnet_find_rdma_dev(base_ndev, ini);
> return; /* pnetid could not be determined */
> }
> _smc_pnet_find_roce_by_pnetid(ndev_pnetid, ini, NULL, net);

I understand Wenjia opposed to this solution as it may create invalid
topologies ?!?

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/08cd6e15-3f8c-47a0-8490-103d59abf910@linux.ibm.com/#t

Wenjia, could you please confirm?

Thanks,

Paolo