On 7/30/19 12:08 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 10:17:25PM CEST, [email protected] wrote:
>> On 7/27/19 3:44 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>> From: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Devlink from the beginning counts with network namespaces, but the
>>> instances has been fixed to init_net. The first patch allows user
>>> to move existing devlink instances into namespaces:
>>>
>>
>> so you intend for an asic, for example, to have multiple devlink
>> instances where each instance governs a set of related ports (e.g.,
>> ports that share a set of hardware resources) and those instances can be
>> managed from distinct network namespaces?
>
> No, no multiple devlink instances for asic intended.
So it should be allowed for an asic to have resources split across
network namespaces. e.g., something like this:
namespace 1 | namespace 2 | ... | namespace N
| | |
{ ports 1 } | { ports 2 } | ... | { ports N }
| | |
devlink 1 | devlink 2 | ... | devlink N
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