Re: [RFC iproute2-next 2/4] rdma: Add support for rdma monitor

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 9/2/24 1:54 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 08:22:50PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
>> On 8/31/24 6:54 PM, Michael Guralnik wrote:
>>> $ echo 4 > /sys/class/net/eth2/device/sriov_numvfs
>>> [NETDEV_ATTACH]	dev 6 port 2 netdev 7
>>> [NETDEV_ATTACH]	dev 6 port 3 netdev 8
>>> [NETDEV_ATTACH]	dev 6 port 4 netdev 9
>>> [NETDEV_ATTACH]	dev 6 port 5 netdev 10
>>> [REGISTER]	dev 7
>>> [NETDEV_ATTACH]	dev 7 port 1 netdev 11
>>> [REGISTER]	dev 8
>>> [NETDEV_ATTACH]	dev 8 port 1 netdev 12
>>> [REGISTER]	dev 9
>>> [NETDEV_ATTACH]	dev 9 port 1 netdev 13
>>> [REGISTER]	dev 10
>>> [NETDEV_ATTACH]	dev 10 port 1 netdev 14
>>>
>>
>> at a minimum the netdev output can be device names not indices; I would
>> expect the same for IB devices (I think that is the `dev N` in the
>> output) though infrastructure might be needed in iproute2.
> 
> I understand the request and it is a good one for the users of the tool.
> 
> However, we will need to remember that "real" users of this monitoring
> UAPI (from kernel side) are the orchestration tools and they won't care
> about the names, but about the IDs, which won't be used in rdmatool.
> 

That's a big assumption.

It is trivial to convert indices to names, so this can be readable for both.