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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat•com>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] veth: implement support for set_channel ethtool op
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 13:36:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zguvu3bd.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c3d691c01121e4110f23d5947b2809d5cce056b.camel@redhat.com>

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 2021-07-09 at 12:15 +0200, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
>> > @@ -224,10 +226,49 @@ static void veth_get_channels(struct net_device *dev,
>> >  {
>> >  	channels->tx_count = dev->real_num_tx_queues;
>> >  	channels->rx_count = dev->real_num_rx_queues;
>> > -	channels->max_tx = dev->real_num_tx_queues;
>> > -	channels->max_rx = dev->real_num_rx_queues;
>> > +	channels->max_tx = dev->num_tx_queues;
>> > +	channels->max_rx = dev->num_rx_queues;
>> >  	channels->combined_count = min(dev->real_num_rx_queues, dev->real_num_tx_queues);
>> > -	channels->max_combined = min(dev->real_num_rx_queues, dev->real_num_tx_queues);
>> > +	channels->max_combined = min(dev->num_rx_queues, dev->num_tx_queues);
>> > +}
>> > +
>> > +static int veth_close(struct net_device *dev);
>> > +static int veth_open(struct net_device *dev);
>> > +
>> > +static int veth_set_channels(struct net_device *dev,
>> > +			     struct ethtool_channels *ch)
>> > +{
>> > +	struct veth_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
>> > +	struct veth_priv *peer_priv;
>> > +
>> > +	/* accept changes only on rx/tx */
>> > +	if (ch->combined_count != min(dev->real_num_rx_queues, dev->real_num_tx_queues))
>> > +		return -EINVAL;
>> > +
>> > +	/* respect contraint posed at device creation time */
>> > +	if (ch->rx_count > dev->num_rx_queues || ch->tx_count > dev->num_tx_queues)
>> > +		return -EINVAL;
>> > +
>> > +	if (!ch->rx_count || !ch->tx_count)
>> > +		return -EINVAL;
>> > +
>> > +	/* avoid braking XDP, if that is enabled */
>> > +	if (priv->_xdp_prog && ch->rx_count < priv->peer->real_num_tx_queues)
>> > +		return -EINVAL;
>> > +
>> > +	peer_priv = netdev_priv(priv->peer);
>> > +	if (peer_priv->_xdp_prog && ch->tx_count > priv->peer->real_num_rx_queues)
>> > +		return -EINVAL;
>> 
>> An XDP program could be loaded later, so I think it's better to enforce
>> this constraint unconditionally.
>
> The relevant check is already present in veth_xdp_set(), the load will
> be rejected with an appropriate extack message.

Ah, right, of course; silly me, that's fine then... :)

> I enforcing the above contraint uncontiditionally will make impossible
> changing the number of real queues at runtime, as we must update dev
> and peer in different moments.
>
>> (What happens on the regular xmit path if the number of TX queues is out
>> of sync with the peer RX queues, BTW?)
>
> if tx < rx, the higly number of rx queue will not be used, if rx < tx,
> XDP/gro can't take place: the normal veth path is used.

Right, OK, that's probably also fine then :)

-Toke


  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-09 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-09  9:39 [RFC PATCH 0/3] veth: more flexible channels number configuration Paolo Abeni
2021-07-09  9:39 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] veth: implement support for set_channel ethtool op Paolo Abeni
2021-07-09 10:15   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-07-09 10:49     ` Paolo Abeni
2021-07-09 11:36       ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2021-07-09 14:38       ` Paolo Abeni
2021-07-09 15:23         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-07-09 16:35           ` Paolo Abeni
2021-07-09 19:56             ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-07-09 19:54   ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-07-12  1:44     ` David Ahern
2021-07-12 10:45       ` Paolo Abeni
2021-07-12 15:23         ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-07-09  9:39 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] veth: make queues nr configurable via kernel module params Paolo Abeni
2021-07-09 10:24   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-07-09 15:33     ` Paolo Abeni
2021-07-09 16:12       ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2021-07-09  9:39 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] selftests: net: veth: add tests for set_channel Paolo Abeni

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