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[34.86.60.15]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id 00721157ae682-79876ac7505sm34314707b3.14.2026.02.28.12.30.18 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:30:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:30:18 -0500 From: Willem de Bruijn To: Jakub Kicinski , Willem de Bruijn Cc: Kiran Kella , willemb@google.com, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, daniel.zahka@gmail.com, pabeni@redhat.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jayakrishnan.udayavarma@broadcom.com, ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com, akhilesh.samineni@broadcom.com Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20260228121034.48c2d282@kernel.org> References: <20260226184654.3180648-1-kiran.kella@broadcom.com> <20260226184654.3180648-2-kiran.kella@broadcom.com> <20260228100449.19f6ef13@kernel.org> <20260228121034.48c2d282@kernel.org> Subject: Re: [net-next, v3 1/2] psp: Support for transmit on logical device when the underlying transport device supports PSP. Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:46:28 -0500 Willem de Bruijn wrote: > > Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:46:53 -0800 Kiran Kella wrote: > > > > This is achieved by propagating the psp_dev from the lower device > > > > to the upper devices in the device stack via a netdevice notifier. > > > > The lowest device owns the psp_dev pointer while the upper devices > > > > just borrow the pointer. When the lower device is unlinked, the > > > > borrowed pointer is cleared in the upper device. > > > > Assumption being that psp_dev is set on the lowest device before > > > > any upper devices are stacked on that lowest device. > > > > > > As I mentioned in the other thread I'd like to establish some clear > > > expectation on where psd propagates automatically and where it doesn't. > > > I don't want to see a stream of patches that say "fix propagating PSP > > > onto X upper". And conversely report saying "PSP got propagated but > > > it doesn't actually work" (macvlan in bridge mode etc). > > > > > > Hence my preference was to require the user who created the device > > > to propagate PSP. Willem, WDYT? > > > > Can you give a bit more detail what you have in mind? > > > > An explicit user (netlink) API to associate a psp_dev with a > > net_device? > > Yes: > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260224002410.1553838-7-weibunny@fb.com/ I see. Yes, fair to ask for an explicit sensible policy. It would be nice if PSP could transparently be enabled on upper devices, similar to dev->features. But this quickly runs into practical questions like when and how can a bonding device with multiple independent lower devices support PSP? dev->features also has type specific carve-outs for upper types, such as vlan_features and hw_enc_features. We probably don't want to introduce the same for PSP.