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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@gmail.com>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>,
	Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>,
	jay.vosburgh@canonical.com
Subject: Re: [net-next V3 15/15] Documentation: networking: Add description for multi-pf netdev
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:43:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240228094312.75dde221@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240228090604.66c17088@kernel.org>

On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:06:04 -0800 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > >Yes, looks RDMA-centric. RDMA being infamously bonding-challenged.    
> > 
> > Not really. It's just needed to consider all usecases, not only netdev.  
> 
> All use cases or lowest common denominator, depends on priorities.

To be clear, I'm not trying to shut down this proposal, I think both
have disadvantages. This one is better for RDMA and iperf, the explicit
netdevs are better for more advanced TCP apps. All I want is clear docs
so users are not confused, and vendors don't diverge pointlessly.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-28 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-15  3:07 [pull request][net-next V3 00/15] mlx5 socket direct (Multi-PF) Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-15  3:08 ` [net-next V3 01/15] net/mlx5: Add MPIR bit in mcam_access_reg Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-15  3:08 ` [net-next V3 02/15] net/mlx5: SD, Introduce SD lib Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-15  3:08 ` [net-next V3 03/15] net/mlx5: SD, Implement basic query and instantiation Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-15  3:08 ` [net-next V3 04/15] net/mlx5: SD, Implement devcom communication and primary election Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-15  3:08 ` [net-next V3 05/15] net/mlx5: SD, Implement steering for primary and secondaries Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-15  3:08 ` [net-next V3 06/15] net/mlx5: SD, Add informative prints in kernel log Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-15  3:08 ` [net-next V3 07/15] net/mlx5: SD, Add debugfs Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-15  3:08 ` [net-next V3 08/15] net/mlx5e: Create single netdev per SD group Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-15  3:08 ` [net-next V3 09/15] net/mlx5e: Create EN core HW resources for all secondary devices Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-15  3:08 ` [net-next V3 10/15] net/mlx5e: Let channels be SD-aware Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-15  3:08 ` [net-next V3 11/15] net/mlx5e: Support cross-vhca RSS Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-15  3:08 ` [net-next V3 12/15] net/mlx5e: Support per-mdev queue counter Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-15  3:08 ` [net-next V3 13/15] net/mlx5e: Block TLS device offload on combined SD netdev Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-15  3:08 ` [net-next V3 14/15] net/mlx5: Enable SD feature Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-15  3:08 ` [net-next V3 15/15] Documentation: networking: Add description for multi-pf netdev Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-16  5:23   ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-02-19 15:26     ` Tariq Toukan
2024-02-21  1:33       ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-02-21  2:10         ` Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-22  7:51         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-02-22 23:00           ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-02-23  1:23             ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2024-02-23  2:05               ` Jay Vosburgh
2024-02-23  5:00                 ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2024-02-23  9:40                   ` Jiri Pirko
2024-02-23 23:56                     ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2024-02-24 12:48                       ` Jiri Pirko
2024-02-23  9:36               ` Jiri Pirko
2024-02-28  2:06                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-02-28  8:13                   ` Jiri Pirko
2024-02-28 17:06                     ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-02-28 17:43                       ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-03-02  7:31                         ` Saeed Mahameed
2024-02-29  8:21                       ` Jiri Pirko
2024-02-29 14:34                         ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-02-19 18:04   ` Jiri Pirko

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