Re: [patch net-next-2.6] vlan: introduce ndo_vlan_[enable/disable]

Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:36:04AM CEST, mirqus@gmail.com wrote:

W dniu 17 lipca 2011 09:30 użytkownik Jiri Pirko [off-list ref] napisał:

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Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 04:14:36PM CEST, mirqus@gmail.com wrote:

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2011/7/16 Jiri Pirko [off-list ref]:

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Some devices are not able to enable/disable rx/tw vlan accel separately.
they depend on ndo_vlan_rx_register to know if to enable of disable
hw accel. And since ndo_vlan_rx_register is going to die soon,
this must be resolved.

One solution might be to enable accel on device start every time, even
if there are no vlan up on. But this would change behaviour and might
lead to possible regression (on older devices).

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Please describe the possible regression. As I see it, there won't be
any user visible change of behaviour - network code takes care of
reinserting VLAN tag when necessary. If you think that disabling tag
stripping is beneficial for cases where no VLANs are configured, it's
better to do that in netdev_fix_features() for devices which advertise
NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX in hw_features.

Well I just wanted to preserve current behaviour which is that in many
drivers vlan accel is enabled only if some vid is registered upon the
device and it's disabled again when no vid is registered. I can see
no way to do this with current code after removing ndo_vlan_rx_register.

I expect unexpected

:-D

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... problems on old cards when vlan accel would be
enabled all the time, but maybe I'm wrong...

Device has no way of knowing how the system uses VLAN tags, stripped
or not. Any problems would be driver problems and since you're making
it all use generic code, bugs will hit all drivers simultaneously or
(preferably) won't happen at all.

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One idea is for device which do not support sepatate rx/tx vlan accel
enabling/disabling they can probably use ndo_fix_features force to
enable/disable rx/tx pair together. That would resolve the situation as
well giving user possibility to turn off vlan accel in case of any issues.

That is exactly the idea behind ndo_fix_features.

In netdev_fix_features add check if either one of NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX or
NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX is set and in that case set the other one. Of course
this would be done only for devices what do not support separate rx/tx
vlan on/off. But how to distinguish? NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_BOTH feature flag?

Thanks.

Jirka

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław