From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Mickey Rachamim <mickeyr@marvell.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Vadym Kochan <vadym.kochan@plvision.eu>,
Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@waldekranz.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 5/7] net: marvell: prestera: add LAG support
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 01:28:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YCMovY0veFPIQkTB@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN6PR18MB158781B17E633670912AEED6BA8E9@BN6PR18MB1587.namprd18.prod.outlook.com>
> Right at the beginning - we implemented PP function into the Kernel
> driver like the SDMA operation (This is the RX/TX DMA engine).
> We do plan to port more and more PP functions as Kernel drivers
> along the way.
It will be interesting to see how well you manage to handle the 'split
brain' problem.
DMA packets to/from the host is pretty isolated from the rest of the
driver. Look at DSA, it has completely separate drivers. But when you
start having parts of the control plain in the driver poking switch
registers, and parts of the control plane in the SDK poking registers,
you have an interesting synchronisation problem.
I guess stats would be a good place to start. Throw away the current
code making an RPC into the SDK, and just directly get the values from
the registers. No real synchronisation problems there. In fact, most
of the ethtool get API calls should be reasonably easy to do via
direct hardware access, rather than using the SDK RPC. Getting values
like that should be easy to synchronise.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-10 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-03 16:54 [PATCH net-next 0/7] Marvell Prestera Switchdev misc updates Vadym Kochan
2021-02-03 16:54 ` [PATCH net-next 1/7] net: marvell: prestera: bump supported firmware version to 2.5 Vadym Kochan
2021-02-03 16:54 ` [PATCH net-next 2/7] net: marvell: prestera: disable events interrupt while handling Vadym Kochan
2021-02-05 5:10 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-02-05 11:28 ` Vadym Kochan
2021-02-03 16:54 ` [PATCH net-next 3/7] net: marvell: prestera: add support for AC3X 98DX3265 device Vadym Kochan
2021-02-03 16:54 ` [PATCH net-next 4/7] net: marvell: prestera: move netdev topology validation to prestera_main Vadym Kochan
2021-02-05 14:09 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-03 16:54 ` [PATCH net-next 5/7] net: marvell: prestera: add LAG support Vadym Kochan
2021-02-05 5:16 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-02-08 19:54 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-02-08 21:05 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-02-08 22:30 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-02-09 12:37 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-02-09 11:56 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-02-09 17:48 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-02-09 13:58 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-02-09 17:35 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-02-09 20:31 ` [EXT] " Mickey Rachamim
2021-02-09 21:34 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-02-10 10:41 ` Mickey Rachamim
2021-02-10 21:44 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-02-10 0:28 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2021-02-10 10:42 ` Mickey Rachamim
2021-02-10 19:25 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-02-10 20:52 ` Taras Chornyi
2021-02-05 15:24 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-03 16:54 ` [PATCH net-next 6/7] net: marvell: prestera: align flood setting according to latest firmware version Vadym Kochan
2021-02-03 16:54 ` [PATCH net-next 7/7] net: marvell: prestera: fix port event handling on init Vadym Kochan
2021-02-05 5:19 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-02-05 12:31 ` Vadym Kochan
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