Re: [patch net-next v3 00/11] Add support for resource abstraction

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 08:59:01 +0100

> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
> 
> Arkadi says:
> 
> Many of the ASIC's internal resources are limited and are shared between
> several hardware procedures. For example, unified hash-based memory can
> be used for many lookup purposes, like FDB and LPM. In many cases the user
> can provide a partitioning scheme for such a resource in order to perform
> fine tuning for his application. In such cases performing driver reload is
> needed for the changes to take place, thus this patchset also adds support
> for hot reload.
> 
> Such an abstraction can be coupled with devlink's dpipe interface, which
> models the ASIC's pipeline as a graph of match/action tables. By modeling
> the hardware resource object, and by coupling it to several dpipe tables,
> further visibility can be achieved in order to debug ASIC-wide issues.
> 
> The proposed interface will provide the user the ability to understand the
> limitations of the hardware, and receive notification regarding its occupancy.
> Furthermore, monitoring the resource occupancy can be done in real-time and
> can be useful in many cases.

Series applied, thank you.