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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>
To: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome•com>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, johannes@sipsolutions•net,
	dsa@cumulusnetworks•com, alexei.starovoitov@gmail•com,
	bblanco@gmail•com, john.fastabend@gmail•com, kubakici@wp•pl,
	oss-drivers@netronome•com
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] xdp: use netlink extended ACK reporting
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 11:05:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58FF1157.8030309@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170425080644.122536-1-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>

On 04/25/2017 10:06 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This series is an attempt to make XDP more user friendly by
> enabling exploiting the recently added netlink extended ACK
> reporting to carry messages to user space.
>
> I made iproute2 parse the extended messages and have it showing
> the errors like this:
>
> # ip link set dev p4p1 xdp obj ipip_prepend.o sec ".text"
> RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument (MTU too large w/ XDP enabled)
>
> Where the message is coming directly from the driver.  There could
> still be a bit of a leap for a complete novice from the message
> above to the right settings.  I wonder if it would be worthwhile

But still 100x better than the current situation. ;) I really
like the series, thanks for working on this!

> adding #defines for the most common configuration conflicts?
> Sharing the messages verbatim between drivers could make them easier
> to google.

Makes sense, once more drivers adapt to this reporting, these
messages could be consolidated.

> Also - is anyone working on adding proper extack support to iproute2?
> The code I have right now is a bit of a hack...
>
> Jakub Kicinski (4):
>    netlink: make extended ACK setting NULL-friendly
>    xdp: propagate extended ack to XDP setup
>    nfp: make use of extended ack message reporting
>    virtio_net: make use of extended ack message reporting
>
>   drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net.h       |  3 ++-
>   .../net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_common.c    | 22 +++++++++++++---------
>   .../net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_ethtool.c   |  4 ++--
>   drivers/net/virtio_net.c                           | 11 +++++++----
>   include/linux/netdevice.h                          | 10 ++++++++--
>   include/linux/netlink.h                            | 12 ++++++++----
>   net/core/dev.c                                     |  5 ++++-
>   net/core/rtnetlink.c                               | 13 ++++++++-----
>   8 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-25  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-25  8:06 [RFC 0/4] xdp: use netlink extended ACK reporting Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-25  8:06 ` [RFC 1/4] netlink: make extended ACK setting NULL-friendly Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-25  8:13   ` Johannes Berg
2017-04-25 20:53     ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-26  7:17       ` Johannes Berg
2017-04-25  9:12   ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-04-25  8:06 ` [RFC 2/4] xdp: propagate extended ack to XDP setup Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-25  8:06 ` [RFC 3/4] nfp: make use of extended ack message reporting Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-25 12:42   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2017-04-25 14:20     ` David Miller
2017-04-26 11:13       ` [oss-drivers] " Simon Horman
2017-04-26 13:03         ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2017-04-26 13:31           ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-04-26 14:44         ` David Miller
2017-04-26 18:44           ` Simon Horman
2017-04-25  8:06 ` [RFC 4/4] virtio_net: " Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-25  9:05 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2017-04-25 16:54   ` [RFC 0/4] xdp: use netlink extended ACK reporting Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-04-25 21:00   ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-04-25 14:53 ` David Ahern
2017-04-25 21:05   ` Jakub Kicinski

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