Subject: [net-next PATCH v2 2/7] net: dcbnl, add multicast group for DCB

From: John Fastabend <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 10:34:37 -0700

Now that dcbnl is being used in many cases by more
than a single agent it is beneficial to be notified
when some entity either driver or user space has
changed the DCB attributes.

Today applications either end up polling the interface
or relying on a user space database to maintain the DCB
state and post events. Polling is a poor solution for
obvious reasons. And relying on a user space database
has its own downside. Namely it has created strange
boot dependencies requiring the database be populated
before any applications dependent on DCB attributes
starts or the application goes into a polling loop.
Populating the database requires negotiating link
setting with the peer and can take anywhere from less
than a second up to a few seconds depending on the switch
implementation.

Perhaps more importantly if another application or an
embedded agent sets a DCB link attribute the database
has no way of knowing other than polling the kernel.
This prevents applications from responding quickly to
changes in link events which at least in the FCoE case
and probably any other protocols expecting a lossless
link may result in IO errors.

By adding a multicast group for DCB we have clean way
to disseminate kernel DCB link attributes up to user
space. Avoiding the need for user space to maintain
a coherant database and disperse events that potentially
do not reflect the current link state.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <[email-masked]>
---

 include/linux/rtnetlink.h |    2 
 include/net/dcbnl.h       |    2 
 net/dcb/dcbnl.c           |  229 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 3 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rtnetlink.h b/include/linux/rtnetlink.h
index bbad657..c81226a 100644
--- a/include/linux/rtnetlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/rtnetlink.h
@@ -585,6 +585,8 @@ enum rtnetlink_groups {
 #define RTNLGRP_PHONET_IFADDR	RTNLGRP_PHONET_IFADDR
 	RTNLGRP_PHONET_ROUTE,
 #define RTNLGRP_PHONET_ROUTE	RTNLGRP_PHONET_ROUTE
+	RTNLGRP_DCB,
+#define RTNLGRP_DCB		RTNLGRP_DCB
 	__RTNLGRP_MAX
 };
 #define RTNLGRP_MAX	(__RTNLGRP_MAX - 1)
diff --git a/include/net/dcbnl.h b/include/net/dcbnl.h
index e5983c9..b3cf10d 100644
--- a/include/net/dcbnl.h
+++ b/include/net/dcbnl.h
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ struct dcb_app_type {
 u8 dcb_setapp(struct net_device *, struct dcb_app *);
 u8 dcb_getapp(struct net_device *, struct dcb_app *);
 
+int dcbnl_notify(struct net_device *dev, int event, int cmd, u32 seq, u32 pid);
+
 /*
  * Ops struct for the netlink callbacks.  Used by DCB-enabled drivers through
  * the netdevice struct.
diff --git a/net/dcb/dcbnl.c b/net/dcb/dcbnl.c
index 3a6d97d..ffba326 100644
--- a/net/dcb/dcbnl.c
+++ b/net/dcb/dcbnl.c
@@ -1166,64 +1166,6 @@ err:
 	return ret;
 }
 
-/* Handle IEEE 802.1Qaz SET commands. If any requested operation can not
- * be completed the entire msg is aborted and error value is returned.
- * No attempt is made to reconcile the case where only part of the
- * cmd can be completed.
- */
-static int dcbnl_ieee_set(struct net_device *netdev, struct nlattr **tb,
-			  u32 pid, u32 seq, u16 flags)
-{
-	const struct dcbnl_rtnl_ops *ops = netdev->dcbnl_ops;
-	struct nlattr *ieee[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_MAX + 1];
-	int err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
-	if (!ops)
-		goto err;
-
-	err = nla_parse_nested(ieee, DCB_ATTR_IEEE_MAX,
-			       tb[DCB_ATTR_IEEE], dcbnl_ieee_policy);
-	if (err)
-		goto err;
-
-	if (ieee[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_ETS] && ops->ieee_setets) {
-		struct ieee_ets *ets = nla_data(ieee[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_ETS]);
-		err = ops->ieee_setets(netdev, ets);
-		if (err)
-			goto err;
-	}
-
-	if (ieee[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_PFC] && ops->ieee_setpfc) {
-		struct ieee_pfc *pfc = nla_data(ieee[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_PFC]);
-		err = ops->ieee_setpfc(netdev, pfc);
-		if (err)
-			goto err;
-	}
-
-	if (ieee[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_APP_TABLE]) {
-		struct nlattr *attr;
-		int rem;
-
-		nla_for_each_nested(attr, ieee[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_APP_TABLE], rem) {
-			struct dcb_app *app_data;
-			if (nla_type(attr) != DCB_ATTR_IEEE_APP)
-				continue;
-			app_data = nla_data(attr);
-			if (ops->ieee_setapp)
-				err = ops->ieee_setapp(netdev, app_data);
-			else
-				err = dcb_setapp(netdev, app_data);
-			if (err)
-				goto err;
-		}
-	}
-
-err:
-	dcbnl_reply(err, RTM_SETDCB, DCB_CMD_IEEE_SET, DCB_ATTR_IEEE,
-		    pid, seq, flags);
-	return err;
-}
-
 static int dcbnl_build_peer_app(struct net_device *netdev, struct sk_buff* skb,
 				int app_nested_type, int app_info_type,
 				int app_entry_type)
@@ -1279,30 +1221,13 @@ nla_put_failure:
 }
 
 /* Handle IEEE 802.1Qaz GET commands. */
-static int dcbnl_ieee_get(struct net_device *netdev, struct nlattr **tb,
-			  u32 pid, u32 seq, u16 flags)
+static int dcbnl_ieee_fill(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev)
 {
-	struct sk_buff *skb;
-	struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
-	struct dcbmsg *dcb;
 	struct nlattr *ieee, *app;
 	struct dcb_app_type *itr;
 	const struct dcbnl_rtnl_ops *ops = netdev->dcbnl_ops;
 	int dcbx;
-	int err;
-
-	if (!ops)
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
-	skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!skb)
-		return -ENOBUFS;
-
-	nlh = NLMSG_NEW(skb, pid, seq, RTM_GETDCB, sizeof(*dcb), flags);
-
-	dcb = NLMSG_DATA(nlh);
-	dcb->dcb_family = AF_UNSPEC;
-	dcb->cmd = DCB_CMD_IEEE_GET;
+	int err = -EMSGSIZE;
 
 	NLA_PUT_STRING(skb, DCB_ATTR_IFNAME, netdev->name);
 
@@ -1378,16 +1303,154 @@ static int dcbnl_ieee_get(struct net_device *netdev, struct nlattr **tb,
 		if (err)
 			goto nla_put_failure;
 	}
-	nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
 
-	return rtnl_unicast(skb, &init_net, pid);
+	return 0;
+
 nla_put_failure:
-	nlmsg_cancel(skb, nlh);
-nlmsg_failure:
-	kfree_skb(skb);
-	return -1;
+	return err;
 }
 
+int dcbnl_notify(struct net_device *dev, int event, int cmd,
+			u32 seq, u32 pid)
+{
+	struct net *net = dev_net(dev);
+	struct sk_buff *skb;
+	struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
+	struct dcbmsg *dcb;
+	const struct dcbnl_rtnl_ops *ops = dev->dcbnl_ops;
+	int err;
+
+	if (!ops)
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+	skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!skb)
+		return -ENOBUFS;
+
+	nlh = nlmsg_put(skb, pid, 0, event, sizeof(*dcb), 0);
+	if (nlh == NULL) {
+		kfree(skb);
+		return -EMSGSIZE;
+	}
+
+	dcb = NLMSG_DATA(nlh);
+	dcb->dcb_family = AF_UNSPEC;
+	dcb->cmd = cmd;
+
+	err = dcbnl_ieee_fill(skb, dev);
+	if (err < 0) {
+		/* Report error to broadcast listeners */
+		nlmsg_cancel(skb, nlh);
+		kfree_skb(skb);
+		rtnl_set_sk_err(net, RTNLGRP_DCB, err);
+	} else {
+		/* End nlmsg and notify broadcast listeners */
+		nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
+		rtnl_notify(skb, net, 0, RTNLGRP_DCB, NULL, GFP_KERNEL);
+	}
+
+	return err;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dcbnl_notify);
+
+/* Handle IEEE 802.1Qaz SET commands. If any requested operation can not
+ * be completed the entire msg is aborted and error value is returned.
+ * No attempt is made to reconcile the case where only part of the
+ * cmd can be completed.
+ */
+static int dcbnl_ieee_set(struct net_device *netdev, struct nlattr **tb,
+			  u32 pid, u32 seq, u16 flags)
+{
+	const struct dcbnl_rtnl_ops *ops = netdev->dcbnl_ops;
+	struct nlattr *ieee[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_MAX + 1];
+	int err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+	if (!ops)
+		return err;
+
+	err = nla_parse_nested(ieee, DCB_ATTR_IEEE_MAX,
+			       tb[DCB_ATTR_IEEE], dcbnl_ieee_policy);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
+	if (ieee[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_ETS] && ops->ieee_setets) {
+		struct ieee_ets *ets = nla_data(ieee[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_ETS]);
+		err = ops->ieee_setets(netdev, ets);
+		if (err)
+			goto err;
+	}
+
+	if (ieee[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_PFC] && ops->ieee_setpfc) {
+		struct ieee_pfc *pfc = nla_data(ieee[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_PFC]);
+		err = ops->ieee_setpfc(netdev, pfc);
+		if (err)
+			goto err;
+	}
+
+	if (ieee[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_APP_TABLE]) {
+		struct nlattr *attr;
+		int rem;
+
+		nla_for_each_nested(attr, ieee[DCB_ATTR_IEEE_APP_TABLE], rem) {
+			struct dcb_app *app_data;
+			if (nla_type(attr) != DCB_ATTR_IEEE_APP)
+				continue;
+			app_data = nla_data(attr);
+			if (ops->ieee_setapp)
+				err = ops->ieee_setapp(netdev, app_data);
+			else
+				err = dcb_setapp(netdev, app_data);
+			if (err)
+				goto err;
+		}
+	}
+
+err:
+	dcbnl_reply(err, RTM_SETDCB, DCB_CMD_IEEE_SET, DCB_ATTR_IEEE,
+		    pid, seq, flags);
+	dcbnl_notify(netdev, RTM_SETDCB, DCB_CMD_IEEE_SET, seq, 0);
+	return err;
+}
+
+static int dcbnl_ieee_get(struct net_device *netdev, struct nlattr **tb,
+			  u32 pid, u32 seq, u16 flags)
+{
+	struct net *net = dev_net(netdev);
+	struct sk_buff *skb;
+	struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
+	struct dcbmsg *dcb;
+	const struct dcbnl_rtnl_ops *ops = netdev->dcbnl_ops;
+	int err;
+
+	if (!ops)
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+	skb = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!skb)
+		return -ENOBUFS;
+
+	nlh = nlmsg_put(skb, pid, seq, RTM_GETDCB, sizeof(*dcb), flags);
+	if (nlh == NULL) {
+		kfree(skb);
+		return -EMSGSIZE;
+	}
+
+	dcb = NLMSG_DATA(nlh);
+	dcb->dcb_family = AF_UNSPEC;
+	dcb->cmd = DCB_CMD_IEEE_GET;
+
+	err = dcbnl_ieee_fill(skb, netdev);
+
+	if (err < 0) {
+		nlmsg_cancel(skb, nlh);
+		kfree_skb(skb);
+	} else {
+		nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
+		err = rtnl_unicast(skb, net, pid);
+	}
+
+	return err;
+}
 /* DCBX configuration */
 static int dcbnl_getdcbx(struct net_device *netdev, struct nlattr **tb,
 			 u32 pid, u32 seq, u16 flags)