From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>, "Andrew Lunn" <andrew@lunn.ch>,
"Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca" <luizluca@gmail.com>,
"Alvin Šipraga" <alsi@bang-olufsen.dk>,
"Madhuri Sripada" <madhuri.sripada@microchip.com>,
"Marcin Wojtas" <mw@semihalf.com>,
"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
"Tobias Waldekranz" <tobias@waldekranz.com>,
"Arun Ramadoss" <arun.ramadoss@microchip.com>,
"Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/4] docs: net: dsa: document the tagger-owned storage mechanism
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 14:32:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7e8b255-d069-4188-86f6-3411f02aaf6c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231208193518.2018114-2-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
On 12/8/23 11:35, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Introduced 2 years ago in commit dc452a471dba ("net: dsa: introduce
> tagger-owned storage for private and shared data"), the tagger-owned
> storage mechanism has recently sparked some discussions which denote a
> general lack of developer understanding / awareness of it. There was
> also a bug in the ksz switch driver which indicates the same thing.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231206071655.1626479-1-sean@geanix.com/
>
> Admittedly, it is also not obvious to see the design constraints that
> led to the creation of such a complicated mechanism.
>
> Here are some paragraphs that explain what it's about.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
--
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-08 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-08 19:35 [PATCH net 0/4] Add some history to the DSA documentation Vladimir Oltean
2023-12-08 19:35 ` [PATCH net 1/4] docs: net: dsa: document the tagger-owned storage mechanism Vladimir Oltean
2023-12-08 22:15 ` Linus Walleij
2023-12-08 22:32 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2023-12-10 13:37 ` Alvin Šipraga
2023-12-08 19:35 ` [PATCH net 2/4] docs: net: dsa: update platform_data documentation Vladimir Oltean
2023-12-08 22:19 ` Linus Walleij
2023-12-09 0:52 ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-12-08 22:33 ` Florian Fainelli
2023-12-10 13:37 ` Alvin Šipraga
2023-12-08 19:35 ` [PATCH net 3/4] docs: net: dsa: update user MDIO bus documentation Vladimir Oltean
2023-12-08 22:22 ` Linus Walleij
2023-12-08 22:36 ` Florian Fainelli
2023-12-09 1:22 ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-12-09 21:49 ` Linus Walleij
2023-12-10 13:48 ` Alvin Šipraga
2023-12-11 14:35 ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-12-13 5:30 ` Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca
2023-12-13 12:06 ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-12-08 19:35 ` [PATCH net 4/4] docs: net: dsa: replace TODO section with info about history and devel ideas Vladimir Oltean
2023-12-08 22:40 ` Linus Walleij
2023-12-08 23:03 ` Florian Fainelli
2023-12-09 1:58 ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-12-11 17:29 ` Florian Fainelli
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