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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:28:48 +0100 (CET)
From: Jonas Johansson <jonasj76@...il.com>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
cc: Jonas Johansson <jonasj76@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
Jonas Johansson <jonas.johansson@...termo.se>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] dsa: bonding: implement HW bonding
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 20/02/15 02:51, Jonas Johansson wrote:
>> From: Jonas Johansson <jonas.johansson@...termo.se>
>>
>> This patch will implement hooks for hardware bonding support for the DSA
>> driver. When the team driver adds a DSA slave port the port will be assigned
>> a bond group id and the DSA slave driver can setup the hardware. When team
>> changes the port state (enabled/disabled) the DSA slave driver is able to
>> use the attach/detach callback which will allow the hardware to change the
>> hardware settings to reflect the state.
>>
>> Added DSA hooks:
>> bond_add_group: To add a port to a bond group
>> bond_del_group: To remove a port from a bond group
>> bond_attach: To mark the port in a bond group as attached/active
>> bond_detach: To unmark the port in a bond group as detach/inactive
>>
>> Added new network device hooks:
>> ndo_bond_attach: To attach a device to a bond group.
>> ndo_bond_detach: To detach a device from a bond group.
>>
>> Team:
>> Added callback to ndo_bond_attach when port is enabled.
>> Added callback to ndo_bond_detach when port is disabled.
>>
>> Added DSA notifier:
>> Listening on NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER to add or deleta a port to/from a bond group.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jonas Johansson <jonas.johansson@...termo.se>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/team/team.c | 4 ++++
>> include/linux/netdevice.h | 8 +++++++
>> include/net/dsa.h | 8 +++++++
>> net/dsa/dsa.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> net/dsa/dsa_priv.h | 6 +++++
>> net/dsa/slave.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++
>> 6 files changed, 109 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/team/team.c b/drivers/net/team/team.c
>> index 0e62274..f7b2afb 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/team/team.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/team/team.c
>> @@ -934,6 +934,8 @@ static void team_port_enable(struct team *team,
>> team->ops.port_enabled(team, port);
>> team_notify_peers(team);
>> team_mcast_rejoin(team);
>> + if (port->dev->netdev_ops->ndo_bond_attach)
>> + port->dev->netdev_ops->ndo_bond_attach(port->dev);
>> }
>>
>> static void __reconstruct_port_hlist(struct team *team, int rm_index)
>> @@ -965,6 +967,8 @@ static void team_port_disable(struct team *team,
>> team_adjust_ops(team);
>> team_notify_peers(team);
>> team_mcast_rejoin(team);
>> + if (port->dev->netdev_ops->ndo_bond_detach)
>> + port->dev->netdev_ops->ndo_bond_detach(port->dev);
>> }
>
> Do we really need new ndos here? Cannot we learn this via
> NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER?
>
If team e.g. uses LACP as runner, a number of ports can be configured as a
bond group, but only the ports of the same physical type will be enabled
and used for bonding. team_port_enable() and team_port_disable() are the
functions to set the ports which should be included for bonding.
>
> [snip]
>
>>
>> /* platform driver init and cleanup *****************************************/
>> static int dev_is_class(struct device *dev, void *class)
>> @@ -778,6 +835,9 @@ static int dsa_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> add_timer(&dst->link_poll_timer);
>> }
>>
>> + /* Setup notifier */
>> + register_netdevice_notifier(&dsa_nb);
>
> I do not think we need to register the netdevice_notifier for every DSA
> platform_device we might instantiate, a single one, global, whenever the
> DSA driver gets inserted should be enough.
>
> Also, I would prefer if we moved this to net/dsa/slave.c where the other
> netdevice_ops are layered, very much like this patch:
>
> [1]: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/440696/
>
I agree.
>> +
>> return 0;
>>
>> out:
>> diff --git a/net/dsa/dsa_priv.h b/net/dsa/dsa_priv.h
>> index dc9756d..6a1456a 100644
>> --- a/net/dsa/dsa_priv.h
>> +++ b/net/dsa/dsa_priv.h
>> @@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ struct dsa_slave_priv {
>> int old_link;
>> int old_pause;
>> int old_duplex;
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * Bond group id, or 0 if port is not bonded.
>> + */
>> + int bond_gid;
>> };
>>
>> /* dsa.c */
>> @@ -58,6 +63,7 @@ struct net_device *dsa_slave_create(struct dsa_switch *ds,
>> int port, char *name);
>> int dsa_slave_suspend(struct net_device *slave_dev);
>> int dsa_slave_resume(struct net_device *slave_dev);
>> +bool dsa_slave_check(struct net_device *dev);
>>
>> /* tag_dsa.c */
>> extern const struct dsa_device_ops dsa_netdev_ops;
>> diff --git a/net/dsa/slave.c b/net/dsa/slave.c
>> index f23dead..88c84bf 100644
>> --- a/net/dsa/slave.c
>> +++ b/net/dsa/slave.c
>> @@ -441,6 +441,22 @@ static int dsa_slave_get_eee(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_eee *e)
>> return ret;
>> }
>>
>> +static int dsa_slave_bond_attach(struct net_device *dev)
>> +{
>> + struct dsa_slave_priv *p = netdev_priv(dev);
>> + struct dsa_switch *ds = p->parent;
>> +
>> + return ds->drv->bond_attach(ds, p->port);
>
> You need to test for the callback implementation in the driver, since it
> is optional and likely not to be implemented immediately.
> --
> Florian
>
Thanks, I missed that.
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