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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Cc: <pabeni@redhat.com>, <edumazet@google.com>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
	<kuni1840@gmail.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 3/5] tcp: Access &tcp_hashinfo via net.
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 14:49:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220901144936.4aaef04b@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220901212520.11421-1-kuniyu@amazon.com>

On Thu, 1 Sep 2022 14:25:20 -0700 Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> > I looks to me that the above chunks are functionally a no-op and I
> > think that omitting the 2 drivers from the v2:
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220829161920.99409-4-kuniyu@amazon.com/
> > 
> > should break mlx5/nfp inside a netns. I don't understand why including
> > the above and skipping the latters?!? I guess is a question mostly for
> > Eric :)  
> 
> My best guess is that it's ok unless it does not touch TCP stack deeply
> and if it does, the driver developer must catch up with the core changes
> not to burden maintainers...?
> 
> If so, I understand that take.  OTOH, I also don't want to break anything
> when we know the change would do.
> 
> So, I'm fine to either stay as is or add the change in v4 again.

FWIW I share Paolo's concern. If we don't want the drivers to be
twiddling with the hash tables we should factor out that code to
a common helper in net/tls/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-01 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-30 19:15 [PATCH v3 net-next 0/5] tcp: Introduce optional per-netns ehash Kuniyuki Iwashima
2022-08-30 19:15 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 1/5] tcp: Clean up some functions Kuniyuki Iwashima
2022-08-30 19:15 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 2/5] tcp: Set NULL to sk->sk_prot->h.hashinfo Kuniyuki Iwashima
2022-08-30 19:15 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 3/5] tcp: Access &tcp_hashinfo via net Kuniyuki Iwashima
2022-09-01 10:57   ` Paolo Abeni
2022-09-01 21:25     ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2022-09-01 21:30       ` Eric Dumazet
2022-09-01 22:12         ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2022-09-03  0:44           ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2022-09-03  0:53             ` Eric Dumazet
2022-09-03  1:12               ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2022-09-03  1:44                 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2022-09-03  2:30                   ` Eric Dumazet
2022-09-03  2:50                     ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2022-09-03  3:16                       ` Eric Dumazet
2022-09-03  3:25                         ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2022-09-01 21:49       ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2022-09-01 22:19         ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2022-08-30 19:15 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 4/5] tcp: Save unnecessary inet_twsk_purge() calls Kuniyuki Iwashima
2022-08-30 19:15 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 5/5] tcp: Introduce optional per-netns ehash Kuniyuki Iwashima

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