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[107.1.126.142]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l31sm101084qtb.20.2019.03.05.16.36.19 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Tue, 05 Mar 2019 16:36:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 19:36:18 -0500 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: si-wei liu Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Sridhar Samudrala , Jakub Kicinski , Jiri Pirko , David Miller , Netdev , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, liran.alon@oracle.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, vijay.balakrishna@oracle.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] failover: allow name change on IFF_UP slave interfaces Message-ID: <20190305193439-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <1551747059-11831-1-git-send-email-si-wei.liu@oracle.com> <20190304213032-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20190305112427.1a23822e@shemminger-XPS-13-9360> <9448ae8f-c4e0-58a4-ff46-2f2951113d1e@oracle.com> <20190305190325-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <8737e985-f418-7002-c8b5-0023d1c4a453@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8737e985-f418-7002-c8b5-0023d1c4a453@oracle.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 04:20:50PM -0800, si-wei liu wrote: > > > On 3/5/2019 4:06 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 11:35:50AM -0800, si-wei liu wrote: > > > > > > On 3/5/2019 11:24 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 11:19:32 -0800 > > > > si-wei liu wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I have a vague idea: would it work to *not* set > > > > > > IFF_UP on slave devices at all? > > > > > Hmm, I ever thought about this option, and it appears this solution is > > > > > more invasive than required to convert existing scripts, despite the > > > > > controversy of introducing internal netdev state to differentiate user > > > > > visible state. Either we disallow slave to be brought up by user, or to > > > > > not set IFF_UP flag but instead use the internal one, could end up with > > > > > substantial behavioral change that breaks scripts. Consider any admin > > > > > script that does `ip link set dev ... up' successfully just assumes the > > > > > link is up and subsequent operation can be done as usual. > > How would it work when carrier is off? > > > > > While it *may* > > > > > work for dracut (yet to be verified), I'm a bit concerned that there are > > > > > more scripts to be converted than those that don't follow volatile > > > > > failover slave names. It's technically doable, but may not worth the > > > > > effort (in terms of porting existing scripts/apps). > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > -Siwei > > > > Won't work for most devices. Many devices turn off PHY and link layer > > > > if not IFF_UP > > > True, that's what I said about introducing internal state for those driver > > > and other kernel component. Very invasive change indeed. > > > > > > -Siwei > > Well I did say it's vague. > > How about hiding IFF_UP from dev_get_flags (and probably > > __dev_change_flags)? > > > Any different? This has small footprint for the kernel change for sure, > while the discrepancy is still there. Anyone who writes code for IFF_UP will > not notice IFF_FAILOVER_SLAVE. > > Not to mention more userspace "fixup" work has to be done due to this > change. > > -Siwei > > Point is it's ok since most userspace should just ignore slaves - hopefully it will just ignore it since it already ignores interfaces that are down. -- MST