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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>
To: sfeldma@gmail•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Cc: jiri@resnulli•us, roopa@cumulusnetworks•com, linux@roeck-us•net,
	f.fainelli@gmail•com, sridhar.samudrala@intel•com,
	ronen.arad@intel•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 01/26] switchdev: introduce get/set attrs ops
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:19:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <551BE234.2060308@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427882882-2533-2-git-send-email-sfeldma@gmail.com>

On 04/01/15 06:07, sfeldma@gmail•com wrote:
> From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail•com>
>
> Add two new swdev ops for get/set switch port attributes.  Most swdev
> interactions on a port are gets or sets on port attributes, so rather than
> adding ops for each attribute, let's define clean get/set ops for all
> attributes, and then we can have clear, consistent rules on how attributes
> propagate on stacked devs.
>
> Add the basic algorithms for get/set attr ops.  Use the same recusive algo to
> walk lower devs we've used for STP updates, for example.  For get, compare attr
> value for each lower dev and only return success if attr values match across
> all lower devs.

So this GET is very specific? All underlying children have to have the
exact same value?
My impression of GET is, depending on the target object, i retrieve
one thing or a lot of things that probably user space is asking for.
I wasnt getting that impression looking at this code.

  For sets, set the same attr value for all lower devs.  If
> something goes wrong on one of the lower devs, revert all back to previous attr
> value.

And from staring at the code - the reverting could fail as well..

>
> If lower dev recusion isn't desired, allow a flag SWDEV_F_NO_RECURSE to
> indicate get/set only work on port (lowest) device.
>
> On set, allow a flag SWDEV_F_NO_RECOVER to turn off automatic err recovery.
>


uh-oh did i read that last one correctly?;-> I dont see it in the code
but are you now allowing for policy to dictate whether we want something
atomic or not? That should be a generic much higher level flag imo.
Note, I am for supporting the different scenarios but i thought
the initial approach was all transactions are atomic (all-or-nothing).

Also why invent new namespace for these switch attributes? They all seem
to have netlink IDs already. I note in patches afterwards are using the
netlink IDs.

cheers,
jamal

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-01 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-01 10:07 [PATCH net-next v2 00/26] switchdev: spring cleanup sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 01/26] switchdev: introduce get/set attrs ops sfeldma
2015-04-01 12:19   ` Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
2015-04-01 18:08   ` David Miller
2015-04-02  7:43     ` Scott Feldman
2015-04-02 16:05       ` David Miller
2015-04-02 17:38         ` Scott Feldman
2015-04-02 17:54           ` David Miller
2015-04-02 18:43           ` Andrew Lunn
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 02/26] switchdev: convert parent_id_get to swdev attr get sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 03/26] switchdev: convert STP update to swdev attr set sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 04/26] switchdev: add bridge port flags attr sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 05/26] rocker: use swdev get/set attr for bridge port flags sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 06/26] switchdev: introduce swdev add/del obj ops sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 07/26] switchdev: add port vlan obj sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 08/26] rocker: use swdev add/del obj for bridge port vlans sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 09/26] switchdev: add new swdev bridge setlink sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 10/26] rocker: cut over to new swdev_port_bridge_setlink sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 11/26] bonding: " sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 12/26] team: " sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 13/26] switchdev: remove old netdev_switch_port_bridge_setlink sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 14/26] switchdev: add new swdev_port_bridge_dellink sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 15/26] rocker: cut over to " sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 16/26] bonding: " sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 17/26] team: " sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 18/26] switchdev: remove unused netdev_switch_port_bridge_dellink sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 19/26] switchdev: add new swdev_port_bridge_getlink sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 20/26] rocker: cut over to " sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 21/26] bonding: " sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 22/26] team: " sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:07 ` [PATCH net-next v2 23/26] switchdev: rename netdev_switch_fib_* to swdev_fib_* sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:08 ` [PATCH net-next v2 24/26] switchdev: rename netdev_switch_notifier_* to swdev_notifier_* sfeldma
2015-04-01 10:08 ` [PATCH net-next v2 25/26] switchdev: convert swdev_fib_ipv4_add/del over to swdev_port_obj_add/del sfeldma
2015-04-01 11:47   ` Jiri Pirko
2015-04-01 15:05   ` roopa
2015-04-01 16:05     ` Jiri Pirko
2015-04-03 18:00       ` Florian Fainelli
2015-04-06 21:56         ` Scott Feldman
2015-04-01 10:08 ` [PATCH net-next v2 26/26] switchdev: bring documentation up-to-date sfeldma
2015-04-01 11:40 ` [PATCH net-next v2 00/26] switchdev: spring cleanup Jiri Pirko
2015-04-01 18:02   ` Scott Feldman
2015-04-02  6:06     ` Jiri Pirko

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