linux-kernel - Re: [Patch v3 net-next 0/3] Add support for mdb offload failure notification

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Message-ID: <af01e665-08bb-4b60-ba0b-1784dd8a5ce3@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 14:15:31 -0400
From: Joseph Huang <joseph.huang.2024@...il.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Joseph Huang <Joseph.Huang@...min.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
 Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [Patch v3 net-next 0/3] Add support for mdb offload failure
 notification

On 4/7/2025 1:29 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 17:29:32 -0400 Joseph Huang wrote:
>> Currently the bridge does not provide real-time feedback to user space
>> on whether or not an attempt to offload an mdb entry was successful.
>>
>> This patch set adds support to notify user space about failed offload
>> attempts, and is controlled by a new knob mdb_offload_fail_notification.
>>
>> A break-down of the patches in the series:
>>
>> Patch 1 adds offload failed flag to indicate that the offload attempt
>> has failed. The flag is reflected in netlink mdb entry flags.
>>
>> Patch 2 adds the new bridge bool option mdb_offload_fail_notification.
>>
>> Patch 3 notifies user space when the result is known, controlled by
>> mdb_offload_fail_notification setting.
> 
> You submitted this during the merge window, when the net-next tree
> was closed. See:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/maintainer-netdev.html#development-cycle
> Could you repost so that the series will be re-enqueued?
> 
> Thanks!

Sure thing!

A couple of questions:

- Should the re-post be v3 (no change) or v4 (bump)?
- Do I re-post after 6.15 is released? Around what time frame (so that I 
can set a reminder)?

Thanks,
Joseph