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docs: devlink: clarify the scope of snapshot id
In past discussions Jiri explained snapshot ids are cross-region. Explain this in the docs. v3: new patch Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-region.rst

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or dump commands. This allows future analysis on the created snapshots.
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Regions may optionally support triggering snapshots on demand.
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Snapshot identifiers are scoped to the devlink instance, not a region.
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All snapshots with the same snapshot id within a devlink instance
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correspond to the same event.
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The major benefit to creating a region is to provide access to internal
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address regions that are otherwise inaccessible to the user.
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