Hi,
This series by Or adds devlink per-port resource support.
See detailed description by Or below [1].
Regards,
Tariq
[1]
Currently, devlink resources are only available at the device level.
However, some resources are inherently per-port, such as the maximum
number of subfunctions (SFs) that can be created on a specific PF port.
This limitation prevents user space from obtaining accurate per-port
capacity information.
This series adds infrastructure for per-port resources in devlink core
and implements it in the mlx5 driver to expose the max_SFs resource
on PF devlink ports.
Patch #1 refactors resource functions to be generic
Patch #2 adds port-level resource registration infrastructure
Patch #3 registers SF resource on PF port representor in mlx5
Patch #4 adds devlink port resource registration to netdevsim for testing
Patch #5 adds dump support for device-level resources
Patch #6 includes port resources in the resource dump dumpit path
Patch #7 adds port-specific option to resource dump doit path
Patch #8 adds selftest for devlink port resource doit
Patch #9 documents port-level resources and full dump
Patch #10 adds resource scope filtering to resource dump
Patch #11 adds selftest for resource dump and scope filter
Patch #12 documents resource scope filtering
Userspace patches for iproute2:
https://github.com/ohartoov/iproute2/tree/port_resources
V4:
- Link to V3:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260226221916.1800227-1-tariqt@nvidia.com/
- Remove new devlink port resource command
- Add devlink resource show for all resources (devices + ports) via
dumpit
- Add scope parameter to dump (scope dev / scope port)
- Extend the doit command with port handle option while preserving the
legacy dev doit path
Or Har-Toov (12):
devlink: Refactor resource functions to be generic
devlink: Add port-level resource registration infrastructure
net/mlx5: Register SF resource on PF port representor
netdevsim: Add devlink port resource registration
devlink: Add dump support for device-level resources
devlink: Include port resources in resource dump dumpit
devlink: Add port-specific option to resource dump doit
selftest: netdevsim: Add devlink port resource doit test
devlink: Document port-level resources and full dump
devlink: Add resource scope filtering to resource dump
selftest: netdevsim: Add resource dump and scope filter test
devlink: Document resource scope filtering
Documentation/netlink/specs/devlink.yaml | 32 +-
.../networking/devlink/devlink-resource.rst | 70 ++++
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/devlink.h | 4 +
.../mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/devlink_port.c | 37 ++
drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c | 23 +-
drivers/net/netdevsim/netdevsim.h | 4 +
include/net/devlink.h | 10 +-
include/uapi/linux/devlink.h | 17 +
net/devlink/devl_internal.h | 4 +
net/devlink/netlink_gen.c | 24 +-
net/devlink/netlink_gen.h | 8 +-
net/devlink/port.c | 2 +
net/devlink/resource.c | 319 +++++++++++++++---
.../drivers/net/netdevsim/devlink.sh | 79 ++++-
14 files changed, 576 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
base-commit: f1359c240191e686614847905fc861cbda480b47
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