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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@waldekranz.com>
Cc: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, vivien.didelot@gmail.com,
	f.fainelli@gmail.com, j.vosburgh@gmail.com, vfalico@gmail.com,
	andy@greyhouse.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 2/4] net: dsa: Link aggregation support
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 22:09:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201203210941.GJ2333853@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6uu7gsr.fsf@waldekranz.com>

> One could argue that if Linus had received an error instead, adapted his
> teamd config and tried again, he would be a happier user and we might
> not have to compete with his OS.
> 
> I am not sure which way is the correct one, but I do not think that it
> necessarily _always_ correct to silently fallback to a non-offloaded
> mode.

This is an argument Mellanox makes, where falling back to software
would be a bad idea given the huge bandwidth of their hardware
accelerator, and the slow bandwidth of their CPU.

If the switch has no hardware support for LAG at all, then falling
back to software is reasonable. It is less clear when there is some
support in the switch. If we do reject it, we should try to make use
of extack to give the user a useful error messages: Not supported, try
configuration XYZ. But i guess that needs some plumbing, getting
extack available in the place we make the decision.

	Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-03 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-02  9:13 [PATCH v3 net-next 0/4] net: dsa: Link aggregation support Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-02  9:13 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 1/4] net: bonding: Notify ports about their initial state Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-02 19:09   ` Jay Vosburgh
2020-12-02 21:52     ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-03  0:39       ` Jay Vosburgh
2020-12-03  8:16         ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-02  9:13 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 2/4] net: dsa: Link aggregation support Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-02 10:07   ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-02 10:51     ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-02 18:58   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-12-02 21:29     ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-02 21:32       ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-03 16:24   ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-03 20:53     ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-03 21:09       ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2020-12-03 21:35         ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-04  0:35           ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-03 21:57       ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-03 23:12         ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-04  0:56           ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-07 21:49             ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-04  1:33         ` Andrew Lunn
2020-12-04  4:18           ` Florian Fainelli
2020-12-07 21:56             ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-03 20:48   ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-04  2:20   ` Andrew Lunn
2020-12-07 21:19     ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-07 23:26       ` Andrew Lunn
2020-12-09  8:57         ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-09 14:27           ` Andrew Lunn
2020-12-09 15:21             ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-09 23:03               ` Andrew Lunn
2020-12-04  4:04   ` Florian Fainelli
2020-12-08 11:23   ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-08 15:33     ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-08 16:37       ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-09  8:37         ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-09 10:53           ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-09 14:11             ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-09 16:04               ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-09 22:01                 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-09 22:21                   ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-10 10:18                     ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-09 22:59                 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-12-10  1:05                   ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-09 14:23             ` Andrew Lunn
2020-12-09 23:17               ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-08 17:26     ` Andrew Lunn
2020-12-11 20:50     ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-12 14:26       ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-13 21:18         ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-14  0:12           ` Vladimir Oltean
2020-12-14 11:42             ` Ido Schimmel
2020-12-16 15:15               ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-16 18:48                 ` Ido Schimmel
2020-12-14  9:41           ` Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-02  9:13 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 3/4] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: " Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-02  9:13 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 4/4] net: dsa: tag_dsa: Support reception of packets from LAG devices Tobias Waldekranz
2020-12-04  3:58   ` Florian Fainelli

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