From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>,
Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>,
Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@nxp.com>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, Vadym Kochan <vkochan@marvell.com>,
Taras Chornyi <tchornyi@marvell.com>,
Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>,
Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>,
Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>,
linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 05/10] net: switchdev: pass flags and mask to both {PRE_,}BRIDGE_FLAGS attributes
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:10:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a1efd0d-9930-cbc7-5450-ffb47a0034e4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210212151600.3357121-6-olteanv@gmail.com>
On 2/12/2021 7:15 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
>
> This switchdev attribute offers a counterproductive API for a driver
> writer, because although br_switchdev_set_port_flag gets passed a
> "flags" and a "mask", those are passed piecemeal to the driver, so while
> the PRE_BRIDGE_FLAGS listener knows what changed because it has the
> "mask", the BRIDGE_FLAGS listener doesn't, because it only has the final
> value. But certain drivers can offload only certain combinations of
> settings, like for example they cannot change unicast flooding
> independently of multicast flooding - they must be both on or both off.
> The way the information is passed to switchdev makes drivers not
> expressive enough, and unable to reject this request ahead of time, in
> the PRE_BRIDGE_FLAGS notifier, so they are forced to reject it during
> the deferred BRIDGE_FLAGS attribute, where the rejection is currently
> ignored.
>
> This patch also changes drivers to make use of the "mask" field for edge
> detection when possible.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
--
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-12 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-12 15:15 [PATCH v5 net-next 00/10] Cleanup in brport flags switchdev offload for DSA Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-12 15:15 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 01/10] net: switchdev: propagate extack to port attributes Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-12 16:00 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2021-02-12 17:03 ` Grygorii Strashko
2021-02-12 15:15 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 02/10] net: bridge: offload all port flags at once in br_setport Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-12 15:57 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2021-02-12 18:05 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-02-12 15:15 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 03/10] net: bridge: don't print in br_switchdev_set_port_flag Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-12 15:59 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2021-02-12 18:07 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-02-12 15:15 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 04/10] net: dsa: configure better brport flags when ports leave the bridge Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-12 15:15 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 05/10] net: switchdev: pass flags and mask to both {PRE_,}BRIDGE_FLAGS attributes Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-12 17:06 ` Grygorii Strashko
2021-02-12 18:10 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2021-02-12 15:15 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 06/10] net: dsa: act as passthrough for bridge port flags Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-12 18:19 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-02-12 15:15 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 07/10] net: dsa: felix: restore multicast flood to CPU when NPI tagger reinitializes Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-12 18:12 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-02-12 15:15 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 08/10] net: mscc: ocelot: use separate flooding PGID for broadcast Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-12 15:15 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 09/10] net: mscc: ocelot: offload bridge port flags to device Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-12 15:16 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 10/10] net: dsa: sja1105: " Vladimir Oltean
2021-02-13 1:20 ` [PATCH v5 net-next 00/10] Cleanup in brport flags switchdev offload for DSA patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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