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From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>,
	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next RFC PATCH 0/6] Add support for qca8k mdio rw in Ethernet packet
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2021 01:14:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211207231449.bk5mxg3z2o7mmtzg@skbuf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ya/mD/KUYDLb7qed@lunn.ch>

On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 11:54:07PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > I considered a simplified form like this, but I think the tagger private
> > data will still stay in dp->priv, only its ownership will change.
> 
> Isn't dp a port structure. So there is one per port?

Yes, but dp->priv is a pointer. The thing it points to may not
necessarily be per port.

> This is where i think we need to separate shared state from tagger
> private data. Probably tagger private data is not per port. Shared
> state between the switch driver and the tagger maybe is per port?

I don't know whether there's such a big difference between
"shared state" vs "private data"? The dp->priv model is flexible enough
to support both. For example, in tag_sja1105, dp->priv is a struct
sja1105_port. All struct sja1105_port of a switch have a common struct
sja1105_tagger_data *data pointer. We could certainly set up the
tag_ops->connect(dst) function to allocate memory in this way.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-07 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-07 14:59 [net-next RFC PATCH 0/6] Add support for qca8k mdio rw in Ethernet packet Ansuel Smith
2021-12-07 14:59 ` [net-next RFC PATCH 1/6] net: dsa: tag_qca: convert to FIELD macro Ansuel Smith
2021-12-07 14:59 ` [net-next RFC PATCH 2/6] net: dsa: tag_qca: move define to include linux/dsa Ansuel Smith
2021-12-07 14:59 ` [net-next RFC PATCH 3/6] net: dsa: tag_qca: add define for mdio read/write in ethernet packet Ansuel Smith
2021-12-07 14:59 ` [net-next RFC PATCH 4/6] net: dsa: qca8k: Add support for mdio read/write in Ethernet packet Ansuel Smith
2021-12-07 14:59 ` [net-next RFC PATCH 5/6] net: dsa: tag_qca: Add support for handling mdio read/write packet Ansuel Smith
2021-12-07 14:59 ` [net-next RFC PATCH 6/6] net: dsa: qca8k: cache lo and hi for mdio write Ansuel Smith
2021-12-07 15:15 ` [net-next RFC PATCH 0/6] Add support for qca8k mdio rw in Ethernet packet Andrew Lunn
2021-12-07 15:33   ` Ansuel Smith
2021-12-07 18:49   ` Florian Fainelli
2021-12-07 19:44     ` Ansuel Smith
2021-12-07 21:10     ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-12-07 22:01       ` Ansuel Smith
2021-12-07 22:37       ` Andrew Lunn
2021-12-07 18:41 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-12-07 18:53   ` Ansuel Smith
2021-12-07 19:15     ` Andrew Lunn
2021-12-07 19:21       ` Ansuel Smith
2021-12-07 20:52         ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-12-07 21:47           ` Ansuel Smith
2021-12-07 22:22             ` Andrew Lunn
2021-12-07 22:30               ` Ansuel Smith
2021-12-07 22:46                 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-12-07 23:47               ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-12-08  0:04                 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-12-08  0:40                   ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-12-08  0:42                     ` Ansuel Smith
2021-12-08  1:09                       ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-12-08  3:32                         ` Ansuel Smith
2021-12-08 11:54                           ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-12-08  1:15                 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-12-07 22:45             ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-12-07 22:54               ` Andrew Lunn
2021-12-07 23:14                 ` Vladimir Oltean [this message]
2021-12-08  1:35                   ` Andrew Lunn
2021-12-08  3:39                     ` Ansuel Smith
2021-12-08 11:51                     ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-12-07 23:05               ` Ansuel Smith
2021-12-07 23:20                 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-12-07 23:24                   ` Ansuel Smith

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