netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bond: add support to read speed and duplex via ethtool

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Date:	Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:57:32 -0500
From:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bond: add support to read speed and duplex via
 ethtool

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 08:17:17PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 13:39 -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> > This patch adds support for the get_settings ethtool op to the bonding
> > driver.  This was motivated by users who wanted to get the speed of the
> > bond and compare that against throughput to understand utilization.
> > The behavior before this patch was added was problematic when computing
> > line utilization after trying to get link-speed and throughput via SNMP.
> > 
> > The general plan for computing link-speed was as follows:
> > 
> > Mode                 Formula
> > ----                 -------
> > active-backup        speed of current active slave
> > broadcast            speed of first slave with known speed
> > all other modes      aggregate speed of all slaves with known speed
> > 
> > Output from ethtool looks like this for a round-robin bond:
> > 
> > Settings for bond0:
> > 	Supported ports: [ ]
> > 	Supported link modes:   Not reported
> > 	Supported pause frame use: No
> > 	Supports auto-negotiation: No
> > 	Advertised link modes:  Not reported
> > 	Advertised pause frame use: No
> > 	Advertised auto-negotiation: No
> > 	Speed: 11000Mb/s
> > 	Duplex: Full
> > 	Port: Twisted Pair
> 
> I think port should be PORT_OTHER.  Or perhaps you could ask the current
> slave, if using active-backup.  (Tricky since you can't do that while
> holding the bond rwlock.)
> 
> > 	PHYAD: 0
> 
> I don't think we have a properly defined 'not applicable' value for
> phy_address, though I've used 0xff in sfc.
> 
[...]
> 
> You must use ethtool_cmd_speed_set() instead of assigning just
> ecmd->speed.
> 
> (bonding appears to be the first driver that could report a value >
> 65535.)
> 

Thanks for the review, Ben.  I'll take a look at these suggestions for v2.

> 
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