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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] macvlan: forbid L2 fowarding offload for
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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 14:20:15 -0800
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:03:23 +0200
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 01:39:08PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:55:07 +0800
> > Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > What if use do want a qdisc and want to change the its queue length for
> > > tun/macvlan? And the the name tx_queue_length is misleading. For tun it
> > > may make sense since it was used in transmission path. For macvtap it
> > > was not. So maybe what we need is just a new ioctl for both tun/macvtap
> > > and a new feature flag. If user create the device with new feature flag,
> > > the socket receive queue length could be changed by ioctl instead of
> > > dev->tx_queue_length. If not, the old behaviour could be kept.
> > 
> > The overloading of tx_queue_len in macvtap was the original design mistake.
> > Can't this just be undone and expose rx_queue_len as sysfs attribute?
> 
> Yes but we need to avoid breaking user-visible ABI.

I think in this case, it was a mistake and hasn't been around long enough
to cause serious damage.

> So I think we'll need to catch any access attempts and redirect them to
> the new rx_queue_len.  I posted a patch like this using new
> ndo_set_tx_queue_len/ndo_get_tx_queue_len.  Have you seen it? What do
> you think?

It encourages others to do/make the same mistake so I don't like it.