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From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@cumulusnetworks•com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>,
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Subject: Re: [patch iproute2 1/6] iproute2: ipa: show switch id
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 06:29:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54806FD7.50608@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141204142015.GR27416@gospo.rtplab.test>

On 12/4/14, 6:20 AM, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:57:13AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli•us>
>> ---
>>   include/linux/if_link.h | 1 +
>>   ip/ipaddress.c          | 8 ++++++++
>>   2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/if_link.h b/include/linux/if_link.h
>> index 4732063..a6e2594 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/if_link.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/if_link.h
>> @@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ enum {
>>   	IFLA_CARRIER,
>>   	IFLA_PHYS_PORT_ID,
>>   	IFLA_CARRIER_CHANGES,
>> +	IFLA_PHYS_SWITCH_ID,
> Serious question for Stephen et al, once we take this to iproute2 are we
> going to be able to change the name but the string diplayed if needed?
>
> I had a patch that called this IFLA_PARENT_ID that I was using with the
> older github tree used by Jiri and Scott before these were in net-next.
> I wanted to submit that as a change to what became
> 82f2841291cfaf4d225aa1766424280254d3e3b2, but was waiting for things to
> be accepted and the dust settled.
>
> I like the parent/child/sibling nomenclature better for 4 reasons:
>
> - Most did not seem to like the term 'offload' since that term would be
>    confusing with, GRO, GSO, etc.
> - A *significant* use case for many of the high-end ASICs in datacenters
>    is routing.
> - switchid does not make sense in the OVS/flow case because it is all
>    about flows, not switches or routers, and parent made sense there.
> - I wanted to combine this for use with SR-IOV use case, so one can more
>    easily map PF->VF using this.

ack.., I have voted for calling it a generic parent id in the past.
>
> Can you give me a bit (a day) to clean-up that patch and submit an
> alternative proposal to these?
>
>>   	__IFLA_MAX
>>   };
>>   
>> diff --git a/ip/ipaddress.c b/ip/ipaddress.c
>> index 4d99324..bd36a07 100644
>> --- a/ip/ipaddress.c
>> +++ b/ip/ipaddress.c
>> @@ -589,6 +589,14 @@ int print_linkinfo(const struct sockaddr_nl *who,
>>   				      b1, sizeof(b1)));
>>   	}
>>   
>> +	if (tb[IFLA_PHYS_SWITCH_ID]) {
>> +		SPRINT_BUF(b1);
>> +		fprintf(fp, "switchid %s ",
>> +			hexstring_n2a(RTA_DATA(tb[IFLA_PHYS_SWITCH_ID]),
>> +				      RTA_PAYLOAD(tb[IFLA_PHYS_SWITCH_ID]),
>> +				      b1, sizeof(b1)));
>> +	}
>> +
>>   	if (tb[IFLA_OPERSTATE])
>>   		print_operstate(fp, rta_getattr_u8(tb[IFLA_OPERSTATE]));
>>   
>> -- 
>> 1.9.3
>>

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-04 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-04  8:57 [patch iproute2 0/6] iproute2: add changes for switchdev Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04  8:57 ` [patch iproute2 1/6] iproute2: ipa: show switch id Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 13:17   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-04 14:20   ` Andy Gospodarek
2014-12-04 14:29     ` Roopa Prabhu [this message]
2014-12-04 14:33     ` Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 14:57       ` Andy Gospodarek
2014-12-04 15:12         ` Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 15:15         ` Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 15:28           ` Andy Gospodarek
2014-12-04 15:37         ` Thomas Graf
2014-12-04 16:15   ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-12-04 16:30     ` Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 17:52       ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-12-04 17:59         ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-04 18:24         ` Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 18:57           ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-12-04 19:19             ` Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 19:26               ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-12-04 19:54                 ` Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 20:06                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-12-04 20:27                   ` Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 20:55                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-12-04 21:10                       ` Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 21:24                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-12-04 22:07                         ` Thomas Graf
2014-12-05  9:54                       ` David Laight
2014-12-08 21:56                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-12-04  8:57 ` [patch iproute2 2/6] bridge/fdb: fix statistics output spacing Jiri Pirko
2014-12-10  0:32   ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-12-04  8:57 ` [patch iproute2 3/6] bridge/fdb: add flag/indication for FDB entry synced from offload device Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 13:19   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-24 20:39   ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-12-04  8:57 ` [patch iproute2 4/6] bridge/link: add new offload hwmode swdev Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 13:23   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-04 20:55     ` Scott Feldman
2014-12-24 20:37   ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-12-04  8:57 ` [patch iproute2 5/6] link: add missing IFLA_BRPORT_PROXYARP Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 18:53   ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-12-04  8:57 ` [patch iproute2 6/6] bridge/link: add learning_sync policy flag Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 13:26   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-04 14:15     ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-04 13:16 ` [patch iproute2 0/6] iproute2: add changes for switchdev Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-04 13:56   ` Andy Gospodarek
2014-12-04 14:22     ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-04 14:31       ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-04 14:26 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-04 14:34   ` Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 14:45     ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-04 16:04       ` Jiri Pirko
2014-12-04 16:55         ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-04 20:49           ` Scott Feldman
2014-12-05  2:28             ` Roopa Prabhu

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