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[204.195.112.199]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u6sm12183964pfk.203.2022.02.23.07.17.39 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 23 Feb 2022 07:17:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 07:17:36 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Guillaume Nault Cc: Jakub Kicinski , Eric Dumazet , "Ziyang Xuan (William)" , Herbert Xu , David Miller , netdev , Vasily Averin , Kees Cook , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: vlan: allow vlan device MTU change follow real device from smaller to bigger Message-ID: <20220223071736.1cb2cf3e@hermes.local> In-Reply-To: <20220223112618.GA19531@debian.home> References: <20220221124644.1146105-1-william.xuanziyang@huawei.com> <8248d662-8ea5-7937-6e34-5f1f8e19190f@huawei.com> <20220222103733.GA3203@debian.home> <20220222152815.1056ca24@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> <20220223112618.GA19531@debian.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 12:26:18 +0100 Guillaume Nault wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 03:28:15PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 11:37:33 +0100 Guillaume Nault wrote: > > > What about an explicit option: > > > > > > ip link add link eth1 dev eth1.100 type vlan id 100 follow-parent-mtu > > > > > > > > > Or for something more future proof, an option that can accept several > > > policies: > > > > > > mtu-update > > > > > > reduce-only (default): > > > update vlan's MTU only if the new MTU is smaller than the > > > current one (current behaviour). > > > > > > follow: > > > always follow the MTU of the parent device. > > > > > > Then if anyone wants more complex policies: > > > > > > follow-if-not-modified: > > > follow the MTU of the parent device as long as the VLAN's MTU > > > was not manually changed. Otherwise only adjust the VLAN's MTU > > > when the parent's one is set to a smaller value. > > > > > > follow-if-not-modified-but-not-quite: > > > like follow-if-not-modified but revert back to the VLAN's > > > last manually modified MTU, if any, whenever possible (that is, > > > when the parent device's MTU is set back to a higher value). > > > That probably requires the possibility to dump the last > > > modified MTU, so the administrator can anticipate the > > > consequences of modifying the parent device. > > > > > > yet-another-policy (because people have a lot of imagination): > > > for example, keep the MTU 4 bytes lower than the parent device, > > > to account for VLAN overhead. > > > > > > Of course feel free to suggest better names and policies :). > > > > > > This way, we can keep the current behaviour and avoid unexpected > > > heuristics that are difficult to explain (and even more difficult for > > > network admins to figure out on their own). > > > > My $0.02 would be that if we want to make changes that require new uAPI > > we should do it across uppers. > > Do you mean something like: > > ip link set dev eth0 vlan-mtu-policy > > that'd affect all existing (and future) vlans of eth0? > > Then I think that for non-ethernet devices, we should reject this > option and skip it when dumping config. But yes, that's another > possibility. > > I personnaly don't really mind, as long as we keep a clear behaviour. > > What I'd really like to avoid is something like: > - By default it behaves this way. > - If you modified the MTU it behaves in another way > - But if you modified the MTU but later restored the > original MTU, then you're back to the default behaviour > (or not?), unless the MTU of the upper device was also > changed meanwhile, in which case ... to be continued ... > - BTW, you might not be able to tell how the VLAN's MTU is going to > behave by simply looking at its configuration, because that also > depends on past configurations. > - Well, and if your kernel is older than xxx, then you always get the > default behaviour. > - ... and we might modify the heuristics again in the future to > accomodate with situations or use cases we failed to consider. > In general these kind of policy choices are done via sysctl knobs. They aren't done at netlink/ip link level.