From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
To: "Patel, Vedang" <vedang.patel@intel.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
"intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org"
<intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org>,
"Gomes, Vinicius" <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>,
"l@dorileo.org" <l@dorileo.org>,
Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/6] taprio: Add support for txtime-assist mode.
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 15:34:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190607153452.53885f87@cakuba.netronome.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0ED5E88B-E95A-4899-975D-00912685CEEF@intel.com>
On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 22:27:07 +0000, Patel, Vedang wrote:
> Hi Jacub,
>
> > On Jun 7, 2019, at 3:02 PM, Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 20:42:55 +0000, Patel, Vedang wrote:
> >>> Thanks for the changes, since you now validate no unknown flags are
> >>> passed, perhaps there is no need to check if flags are == ~0?
> >>>
> >>> IS_ENABLED() could just do: (flags) & TCA_TAPRIO_ATTR_FLAG_TXTIME_ASSIST
> >>> No?
> >>>
> >> This is specifically done so that user does not have to specify the
> >> offload flags when trying to install the another schedule which will
> >> be switched to at a later point of time (i.e. the admin schedule
> >> introduced in Vinicius’ last series). Setting taprio_flags to ~0
> >> will help us distinguish between the flags parameter not specified
> >> and flags set to 0.
> >
> > I'm not super clear on this, because of backward compat you have to
> > treat attr not present as unset. Let's see:
> >
> > new qdisc:
> > - flags attr = 0 -> txtime not used
> > - flags attr = 1 -> txtime used
> > -> no flags attr -> txtime not used
> > change qdisc:
> > - flags attr = old flags attr -> leave unchanged
> > - flags attr != old flags attr -> error
> > - no flags attr -> leave txtime unchanged
> >
> > Doesn't that cover the cases? Were you planning to have no flag attr
> > on change mean disabled rather than no change?
>
> You covered all the cases above.
>
> Thinking a bit more about it, yes you are right. Initiializing flags
> to 0 will work. I will incorporate this change in the next version.
Cool, thanks!
FWIW I think historically TC used to require all parameters specified
and assumed 0 rather than not changed, but I think that was because C
structs were passed as blobs instead of breaking things out per attr.
So today I think its better to make full use of attrs and assume not
present to mean not changed 👍
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-07 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-06 17:50 [PATCH net-next v2 0/6] net/sched: Add txtime-assist support for taprio Vedang Patel
2019-06-06 17:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/6] igb: clear out tstamp after sending the packet Vedang Patel
2019-06-06 17:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/6] etf: Add skip_sock_check Vedang Patel
2019-06-06 17:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/6] taprio: calculate cycle_time when schedule is installed Vedang Patel
2019-06-06 17:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/6] taprio: Add support for txtime-assist mode Vedang Patel
2019-06-06 23:21 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-06-07 20:42 ` Patel, Vedang
2019-06-07 22:02 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-06-07 22:27 ` Patel, Vedang
2019-06-07 22:34 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2019-06-06 17:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 5/6] taprio: make clock reference conversions easier Vedang Patel
2019-06-06 17:50 ` [PATCH net-next v2 6/6] taprio: Adjust timestamps for TCP packets Vedang Patel
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