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From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
To: "Jubran, Samih" <sameehj@amazon.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	"Bshara, Nafea" <nafea@amazon.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	"Kiyanovski, Arthur" <akiyano@amazon.com>,
	"Bshara, Saeed" <saeedb@amazon.com>,
	"Tzalik, Guy" <gtzalik@amazon.com>,
	"Matushevsky, Alexander" <matua@amazon.com>,
	"Liguori, Anthony" <aliguori@amazon.com>,
	"Saidi, Ali" <alisaidi@amazon.com>,
	"Machulsky, Zorik" <zorik@amazon.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Wilson, Matt" <msw@amazon.com>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Belgazal, Netanel" <netanel@amazon.com>,
	"Herrenschmidt, Benjamin" <benh@amazon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 net 00/11] Extending the ena driver to support new features and enhance performance
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 10:16:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190606100945.49ceb657@cakuba.netronome.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f697af8f31f4bc7ba30ef643e7b3921@EX13D11EUB003.ant.amazon.com>

Hi Samih!

Please don't top post on Linux kernel mailing lists.

On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 10:23:40 +0000, Jubran, Samih wrote:
> As of today there are no flags exposed by ENA NIC device, however, we
> are planning to use them in the near future. We want to provide
> customers with extra methods to identify (and differentiate) multiple
> network interfaces that can be attached to a single VM. Currently,
> customers can identify a specific network interface (ENI) only by MAC
> address, and later look up this MAC among other multiple ENIs that
> they have. In some cases it might not be convenient. Using these
> flags will let us inform the customer about ENI`s specific
> properties.

Oh no :(  You're using private _feature_ flags as labels or tags.

> It's not finalized, but tentatively it can look like this: 
> primary-eni: on /* Differentiate between primary and secondary ENIs */

Did you consider using phys_port_name for this use case?

If the intent is to have those interfaces bonded, even better would
be to extend the net_failover module or work on user space ABI for VM
failover.  That might be a bigger effort, though.

> has-associated-efa: on /* Will specify ENA device has another associated EFA device */

IDK how your ENA/EFA thing works, but sounds like something that should
be solved in the device model.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-06 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-03 14:43 [PATCH V2 net 00/11] Extending the ena driver to support new features and enhance performance sameehj
2019-06-03 14:43 ` [PATCH V2 net 01/11] net: ena: add handling of llq max tx burst size sameehj
2019-06-03 14:43 ` [PATCH V2 net 02/11] net: ena: ethtool: add extra properties retrieval via get_priv_flags sameehj
2019-06-03 14:43 ` [PATCH V2 net 03/11] net: ena: replace free_tx/rx_ids union with single free_ids field in ena_ring sameehj
2019-06-03 14:43 ` [PATCH V2 net 04/11] net: ena: arrange ena_probe() function variables in reverse christmas tree sameehj
2019-06-03 14:43 ` [PATCH V2 net 05/11] net: ena: add newline at the end of pr_err prints sameehj
2019-06-03 14:43 ` [PATCH V2 net 06/11] net: ena: documentation: update ena.txt sameehj
2019-06-03 14:43 ` [PATCH V2 net 07/11] net: ena: allow automatic fallback to polling mode sameehj
2019-06-03 14:43 ` [PATCH V2 net 08/11] net: ena: add support for changing max_header_size in LLQ mode sameehj
2019-06-03 14:43 ` [PATCH V2 net 09/11] net: ena: optimise calculations for CQ doorbell sameehj
2019-06-03 14:43 ` [PATCH V2 net 10/11] net: ena: add good checksum counter sameehj
2019-06-03 14:43 ` [PATCH V2 net 11/11] net: ena: use dev_info_once instead of static variable sameehj
2019-06-03 20:30 ` [PATCH V2 net 00/11] Extending the ena driver to support new features and enhance performance David Miller
2019-06-03 21:32 ` Jakub Kicinski
     [not found]   ` <9da931e72debc868efaac144082f40d379c50f3c.camel@amazon.co.uk>
2019-06-03 23:03     ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-06-04  1:50       ` Andrew Lunn
2019-06-04  2:15         ` Bshara, Nafea
2019-06-04  6:57           ` David Woodhouse
2019-06-04 17:24             ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-06-06 10:23               ` Jubran, Samih
2019-06-06 17:16                 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2019-06-06 21:40                   ` Bshara, Nafea
2019-06-06 22:04                     ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-06-06 22:57                       ` Bshara, Nafea
2019-06-06 23:07                         ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-06-06 23:21                           ` Bshara, Nafea
2019-06-06 23:42                             ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-06-07  1:04                               ` Bshara, Nafea
2019-06-07  1:14                                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-06-07 21:27                                   ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-06-07 21:34                                     ` Bshara, Nafea
2019-06-07 21:54                                       ` Jakub Kicinski

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