netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] mlx4/en_netdev: call notifiers when hw_enc

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Date:   Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:25:13 +0200
From:   Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>
To:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] mlx4/en_netdev: call notifiers when
 hw_enc_features change

On Wed, 2019-07-24 at 20:47 +0000, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-07-24 at 16:02 +0200, Davide Caratti wrote:
> > ensure to call netdev_features_change() when the driver flips its
> > hw_enc_features bits.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>
> 
> The patch is correct, 

hello Saeed, and thanks for looking at this!

> but can you explain how did you come to this ? 
> did you encounter any issue with the current code ?
> 
> I am asking just because i think the whole dynamic changing of dev-
> > hw_enc_features is redundant since mlx4 has the featutres_check
> callback.

we need it to ensure that vlan_transfer_features() updates
the (new) value of hw_enc_features in the overlying vlan: otherwise,
segmentation will happen anyway when skb passes from vxlan to vlan, if the
vxlan is added after the vlan device has been created (see: 7dad9937e064
("net: vlan: add support for tunnel offload") ).

thanks!
-- 
davide