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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>,
	Shay Drory <shayd@nvidia.com>, Moshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 14/15] net/mlx5: Light probe local SFs
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 19:37:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZItMUwiRD8mAmEz1@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230615093701.20d0ad1b@kernel.org>

Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 06:37:01PM CEST, kuba@kernel.org wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:51:09 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> The problem is scalability. SFs could be activated in parallel, but the
>> cmd that is doing that holds devlink instance lock. That serializes it.
>> So we need to either:
>> 1) change the devlink locking to be able to execute some of the cmds in
>>    parallel and leave the activation sync
>> 2) change the activation to be async and work with notifications
>> 
>> I like 2) better, as the 1) maze we just got out of recently :)
>> WDYT?
>
>I guess we don't need to wait for the full activation. Is the port
>creation also async, then, or just the SF devlink instance creation?

I'm not sure I follow :/
The activation is when the SF auxiliary device is created. The driver then
probes the SF auxiliary device and instantiates everything, SF devlink,
SF netdev, etc.

We need wait/notification for 2 reasons
1) to get the auxiliary device name for the activated
   SF. It is needed for convenience of the orchestration tools.
2) to get the result of the activation (success/fail)
   It is also needed for convenience of the orchestration tools.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-15 17:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-10  1:42 [pull request][net-next 00/15] mlx5 updates 2023-06-09 Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-10  1:42 ` [net-next 01/15] net/mlx5: Simplify unload all rep code Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-12 11:00   ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2023-06-10  1:42 ` [net-next 02/15] net/mlx5: mlx5_ifc updates for embedded CPU SRIOV Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-10  1:42 ` [net-next 03/15] net/mlx5: Enable devlink port for embedded cpu VF vports Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-10  1:42 ` [net-next 04/15] net/mlx5: Update vport caps query/set for EC VFs Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-10  1:42 ` [net-next 05/15] net/mlx5: Add management of EC VF vports Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-10  1:42 ` [net-next 06/15] net/mlx5: Add/remove peer miss rules for EC VFs Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-10  1:42 ` [net-next 07/15] net/mlx5: Add new page type for EC VF pages Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-10  1:42 ` [net-next 08/15] net/mlx5: Use correct vport when restoring GUIDs Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-10  1:42 ` [net-next 09/15] net/mlx5: Query correct caps for min msix vectors Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-10  1:42 ` [net-next 10/15] net/mlx5: Update SRIOV enable/disable to handle EC/VFs Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-10  1:42 ` [net-next 11/15] net/mlx5: Set max number of embedded CPU VFs Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-10  1:42 ` [net-next 12/15] net/mlx5: Split function_setup() to enable and open functions Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-10  1:42 ` [net-next 13/15] net/mlx5: Move esw multiport devlink param to eswitch code Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-10  1:42 ` [net-next 14/15] net/mlx5: Light probe local SFs Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-10  7:01   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-11  4:15     ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-11  5:10       ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2023-06-13 23:41         ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-12 17:51       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-13 23:32         ` Saeed Mahameed
2023-06-14  2:05           ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-15 10:51             ` Jiri Pirko
2023-06-15 16:37               ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-15 17:37                 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2023-06-15 19:33                   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-21 13:14                     ` Jiri Pirko
2023-06-21 18:23                       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-22  6:42                         ` Jiri Pirko
2023-06-22  6:38                       ` Jiri Pirko
2023-06-22 16:35                         ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-23  9:27                           ` Jiri Pirko
2023-06-23 15:21                             ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-24  9:33                               ` Jiri Pirko
2023-06-24 20:47                                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-27 10:12                                   ` Jiri Pirko
2023-06-27 15:24                                     ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-27 17:16                                       ` Jiri Pirko
2023-06-27 17:35                                         ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-10  1:42 ` [net-next 15/15] net/mlx5e: Remove a useless function call Saeed Mahameed

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