netdev - Re: [net-next 1/2] vxlan: Notify drivers for listening UDP port changes

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Date:	Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:43:32 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next  1/2] vxlan: Notify drivers for listening UDP port
 changes

On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 07:47 +0000, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 at 04:46 GMT, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> wrote:
> > From: Joseph Gasparakis <joseph.gasparakis@...el.com>
> >
> > This patch adds two more ndo ops: ndo_add_rx_vxlan_port() and
> > ndo_del_rx_vxlan_port().
> >
> > Drivers can get notifications through the above functions about changes
> > of the UDP listening port of VXLAN. Also, when physical ports come up,
> > now they can call vxlan_get_rx_port() in order to obtain the port number(s)
> > of the existing VXLAN interface in case they already up before them.
> >
> > This information about the listening UDP port would be used for VXLAN
> > related offloads.
> >
> 
> Since this is a notification, how about adding a new NETDEV_* event
> rather than adding two new ndo_* ops?

Since this is a change at the netns (rather than net device) level, it
makes more logical sense to send a single notification for each change.
But any driver that needs to know about this would then need to iterate
over its own devices (limited to the given netns) - which means writing
the same iteration in each driver that supports this (with added
filtering by driver), or adding a list of devices to each driver.  So
practically it seems better to do this iteration in the core as
proposed.

Ben.

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