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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: nikolay@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, andy@greyhouse.net,
	fubar@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bonding: fix arp monitoring with vlan slaves
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:17:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1375485466.4457.4.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130802.153212.1340051334413929810.davem@davemloft.net>

On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 15:32 -0700, David Miller wrote:

> Handling this specially in bonding isn't really ideal.
> 
> Please either hide this detail in dev_trans_start(), or (preferrably)
> have vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit() set the trans_start timestamp
> properly thus making this just work for everything.

vlan is LLTX, so setting the timestamp would incur false sharing on
multiqueue.

But it's true we need a helper, because many callers do

if (dev->priv_flags & IFF_802_1Q_VLAN)
       dev = vlan_dev_real_dev(dev);

or the slighly better

if (is_vlan_dev(dev))
   dev = vlan_dev_real_dev(dev);

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-02 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-02 16:41 [PATCH net] bonding: fix arp monitoring with vlan slaves Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-08-02 22:32 ` David Miller
2013-08-02 22:40   ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-08-02 23:17   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2013-08-02 23:29     ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-08-02 23:59       ` Jay Vosburgh
2013-08-03  0:03       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-08-03  0:21         ` Nikolay Aleksandrov

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