From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v11 2/5] netvsc: refactor notifier/event handling code to use the failover framework Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 16:12:40 +0300 Message-ID: <20180522161007-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <1526954781-35359-1-git-send-email-sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> <1526954781-35359-3-git-send-email-sridhar.samudrala@intel.com> <20180522090637.GE2149@nanopsycho> <20180522090853.GF2149@nanopsycho> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sridhar Samudrala , stephen@networkplumber.org, davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, kubakici@wp.pl, jasowang@redhat.com, loseweigh@gmail.com, aaron.f.brown@intel.com, anjali.singhai@intel.com To: Jiri Pirko Return-path: Sender: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180522090853.GF2149@nanopsycho> List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:08:53AM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:06:37AM CEST, jiri@resnulli.us wrote: > >Tue, May 22, 2018 at 04:06:18AM CEST, sridhar.samudrala@intel.com wrote: > >>Use the registration/notification framework supported by the generic > >>failover infrastructure. > >> > >>Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala > > > >In previous patchset versions, the common code did > >netdev_rx_handler_register() and netdev_upper_dev_link() etc > >(netvsc_vf_join()). Now, this is still done in netvsc. Why? > > > >This should be part of the common "failover" code. > > > > Also note that in the current patchset you use IFF_FAILOVER flag for > master, yet for the slave you use IFF_SLAVE. That is wrong. > IFF_FAILOVER_SLAVE should be used. Or drop IFF_FAILOVER_SLAVE and set both IFF_FAILOVER and IFF_SLAVE? -- MST