Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: rzn1-a5psw: Add vlan support

[Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 03:12:40PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 09:37:55PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:56:07 +0100 Clément Léger wrote:
> > > Add support for vlan operation (add, del, filtering) on the RZN1
> > > driver. The a5psw switch supports up to 32 VLAN IDs with filtering,
> > > tagged/untagged VLANs and PVID for each ports.
> > 
> > noob question - do you need that mutex? 
> > aren't those ops all under rtnl_lock?
> 
> Hi Jakub
> 
> Not commenting about this specific patch, but not everything in DSA is
> done under RTNL. So you need to deal with some parallel API calls. But
> they tend to be in different areas. I would not expect to see two VLAN
> changes as the same time, but maybe VLAN and polling in a workqueue to
> update the statistics for example could happen. Depending on the
> switch, some protect might be needed to stop these operations
> interfering with each other. And DSA drivers in general tend to KISS
> and over lock. Nothing here is particularly hot path, the switch
> itself is on the end of a slow bus, so the overhead of locks are
> minimum.

That being said, port_vlan_add(), port_vlan_del() and port_vlan_filtering()
are all serialized by the rtnl_lock().