public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>,
	<intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org>,
	Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
	Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>,
	Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Konrad Knitter <konrad.knitter@intel.com>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ITP Upstream <nxne.cnse.osdt.itp.upstreaming@intel.com>,
	Carolina Jubran <cjubran@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next v2 1/2] devlink: add whole device devlink instance
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:09:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <364fdb08-5666-4028-8593-bfd921cee2c7@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wf5ugq4h4lv2uic3622xurjbfwf534gj2jx6jbhaxoncingb3z@ceo4xkikjbdn>



On 2/24/2025 5:03 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 02:45:12AM +0100, kuba@kernel.org wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:32:54 +0100 Przemek Kitszel wrote:
>>> Thanks to Wojciech Drewek for very nice naming of the devlink instance:
>>> PF0:		pci/0000:00:18.0
>>> whole-dev:	pci/0000:00:18
>>> But I made this a param for now (driver is free to pass just "whole-dev").
>>
>> Which only works nicely if you're talking about functions not full
>> separate links :) When I was thinking about it a while back my
>> intuition was that we should have a single instance, just accessible
>> under multiple names. But I'm not married to that direction if there
>> are problems with it.
> 
> I kind of agree. Like multiple channels to one entity, each labeled by a
> different name (handle in devlink case).
> 

This might actually also help alleviate some of the uAPI concerns too?
Since the original names would access the instance.

  reply	other threads:[~2025-02-24 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-19 16:32 [RFC net-next v2 0/2] devlink: whole-device, resource .occ_set() Przemek Kitszel
2025-02-19 16:32 ` [RFC net-next v2 1/2] devlink: add whole device devlink instance Przemek Kitszel
2025-02-19 22:11   ` Jacob Keller
2025-02-21  1:45   ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-02-21 22:50     ` Jacob Keller
2025-02-24 10:15       ` Przemek Kitszel
2025-02-24 13:03     ` Jiri Pirko
2025-02-24 22:09       ` Jacob Keller [this message]
2025-02-24 16:14   ` Jiri Pirko
2025-02-24 22:12     ` Jacob Keller
2025-02-25 11:30     ` Przemek Kitszel
2025-02-25 14:35       ` Jiri Pirko
2025-02-25 15:40         ` Przemek Kitszel
2025-02-25 18:16           ` Jacob Keller
2025-02-26 14:48           ` Jiri Pirko
2025-02-26 15:06             ` Przemek Kitszel
2025-02-26 15:25               ` Jiri Pirko
2025-03-18 15:42   ` Jiri Pirko
2025-02-19 16:32 ` [RFC net-next v2 2/2] devlink: give user option to allocate resources Przemek Kitszel

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=364fdb08-5666-4028-8593-bfd921cee2c7@intel.com \
    --to=jacob.e.keller@intel.com \
    --cc=andrew@lunn.ch \
    --cc=anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com \
    --cc=cjubran@nvidia.com \
    --cc=cratiu@nvidia.com \
    --cc=davem@davemloft.net \
    --cc=edumazet@google.com \
    --cc=intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org \
    --cc=jiri@resnulli.us \
    --cc=konrad.knitter@intel.com \
    --cc=kuba@kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=nxne.cnse.osdt.itp.upstreaming@intel.com \
    --cc=pabeni@redhat.com \
    --cc=przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com \
    --cc=tariqt@nvidia.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox