From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>, Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>,
Jianbo Liu <jianbol@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/3] net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 18:23:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250909182319.6bfa8511@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1757326026-536849-3-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com>
On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 13:07:05 +0300 Tariq Toukan wrote:
> If the PF's netns has been moved and differs from the devlink's netns,
> enabling switchdev mode would create an invalid state where
> representors and PF exist in different namespaces.
>
> To prevent this inconsistent configuration,
Could you explain clearly what is the problem with having different
netdevs in different namespaces? From networking perspective it really
doesn't matter.
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pw-bot: cr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-10 1:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-08 10:07 [PATCH net 0/3] mlx5e misc fixes 2025-09-08 Tariq Toukan
2025-09-08 10:07 ` [PATCH net 1/3] net/mlx5e: Harden uplink netdev access against device unbind Tariq Toukan
2025-09-10 1:23 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-10 3:23 ` Jianbo Liu
2025-09-11 0:45 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-11 7:09 ` Jianbo Liu
2025-09-12 11:07 ` Przemek Kitszel
2025-09-15 0:59 ` Jianbo Liu
2025-09-08 10:07 ` [PATCH net 2/3] net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns Tariq Toukan
2025-09-10 1:23 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-09-10 3:01 ` Jianbo Liu
2025-09-11 0:48 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-11 7:48 ` Jianbo Liu
2025-09-12 0:11 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-09-12 1:12 ` Jianbo Liu
2025-09-08 10:07 ` [PATCH net 3/3] net/mlx5e: Add a miss level for ipsec crypto offload Tariq Toukan
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