On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 12:20:59 -0600 David Ahern wrote: > On 7/18/23 12:15 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:06:29 -0300 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > >> netlink feels like a weird API choice for that, in particular it would > >> be really wrong to somehow bind the lifecycle of a netlink object to a > >> process. > > > > Netlink is the right API, life cycle of objects can be easily tied to > > a netlink socket. > > That is an untuitive connection -- memory references, h/w queues, flow > steering should be tied to the datapath socket, not a control plane socket. There's one RSS context for may datapath sockets. Plus a lot of the APIs already exist, and it's more of a question of packaging them up at the user space level. For things which do not have an API, however, netlink, please.
