Netdev List
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
To: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com>,
	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>,
	Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>,
	Brian Hutchinson <b.hutchman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: fix bonding with ARP monitoring by updating trans_start manually
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 21:53:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220725215318.rc7ip2npzl4g6chq@skbuf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24e1144d-2dcc-6b33-eec0-f668d51c7a80@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 05:39:33PM -0400, Jonathan Toppins wrote:
> > +	/* Stacked network interfaces usually have NETIF_F_LLTX so
> > +	 * netdev_start_xmit() -> txq_trans_update() fails to do anything,
> > +	 * because they don't lock the TX queue. However, layers such as the
> > +	 * bonding arp monitor may still use dev_trans_start() on slave
> > +	 * interfaces such as vlan, macvlan, DSA (or potentially stacked
> > +	 * combinations of the above). In this case, walk the adjacency lists
> > +	 * all the way down, hoping that the lower-most device won't have
> > +	 * NETIF_F_LLTX.
> > +	 */
> 
> I am not sure this assumption holds for virtual devices like veth unless the
> virtual interfaces are updated to modify trans_start, see
> e66e257a5d83 ("veth: Add updating of trans_start")
> 
> And not all the virtual interfaces update trans_start iirc.

Agree this hack won't give callers of dev_trans_start() something to chew
in all cases when "dev" is a virtual interface, that's why I said 'stacked'
and not 'virtual'.

      reply	other threads:[~2022-07-25 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-15 23:26 [PATCH net] net: dsa: fix bonding with ARP monitoring by updating trans_start manually Vladimir Oltean
2022-07-15 23:52 ` Florian Fainelli
2022-07-16  0:00 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-07-16  0:14   ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-07-16  0:19     ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-07-16  0:26       ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-07-16  0:55         ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-07-16 13:30           ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-07-16 23:33             ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-07-25 20:31               ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-07-25 20:40                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-07-25 21:39                 ` Jonathan Toppins
2022-07-25 21:53                   ` Vladimir Oltean [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20220725215318.rc7ip2npzl4g6chq@skbuf \
    --to=vladimir.oltean@nxp.com \
    --cc=andrew@lunn.ch \
    --cc=b.hutchman@gmail.com \
    --cc=davem@davemloft.net \
    --cc=edumazet@google.com \
    --cc=f.fainelli@gmail.com \
    --cc=j.vosburgh@gmail.com \
    --cc=jtoppins@redhat.com \
    --cc=kuba@kernel.org \
    --cc=liuhangbin@gmail.com \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=pabeni@redhat.com \
    --cc=vfalico@gmail.com \
    --cc=vivien.didelot@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox