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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
	"Amit Cohen" <amcohen@nvidia.com>, <mlxsw@nvidia.com>,
	Maksym Yaremchuk <maksymy@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] mlxsw: spectrum: Fix incorrect parsing depth after reload
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 19:33:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230210193350.239f707f@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6abc3c92f72af737cb3bba18e610adaa897ced21.1675942338.git.petrm@nvidia.com>

On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 12:40:24 +0100 Petr Machata wrote:
> Spectrum ASICs have a configurable limit on how deep into the packet
> they parse. By default, the limit is 96 bytes.
> 
> There are several cases where this parsing depth is not enough and there
> is a need to increase it. For example, timestamping of PTP packets and a
> FIB multipath hash policy that requires hashing on inner fields. The
> driver therefore maintains a reference count that reflects the number of
> consumers that require an increased parsing depth.
> 
> During reload_down() the parsing depth reference count does not
> necessarily drop to zero, but the parsing depth itself is restored to
> the default during reload_up() when the firmware is reset. It is
> therefore possible to end up in situations where the driver thinks that
> the parsing depth was increased (reference count is non-zero), when it
> is not.

Sounds quite odd TBH, something doesn't get de-registered during _down()
but is registered again during _up()?

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-11  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-09 11:40 [PATCH net] mlxsw: spectrum: Fix incorrect parsing depth after reload Petr Machata
2023-02-11  3:33 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-02-11 16:21   ` Ido Schimmel
2023-02-13 21:01     ` Jakub Kicinski

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