netdev - Re: [patch net-next v3 02/17] net: make vid as a parameter for ndo_fdb_add/ndo_fdb

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Date:	Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:50:27 -0500
From:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next v3 02/17] net: make vid as a parameter for ndo_fdb_add/ndo_fdb_del

On 11/25/14 11:30, John Fastabend wrote:
> On 11/25/2014 08:18 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>> On 11/25/14 11:01, John Fastabend wrote:
>>> On 11/25/2014 07:38 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>>>> On 11/25/14 05:28, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>>>> Do the work of parsing NDA_VLAN directly in rtnetlink code, pass simple
>>>>> u16 vid to drivers from there.
>>>>>
>>>>


> Actually (after having some coffee) this becomes much more useful
> if you return which items failed. Then you can slam the hardware
> with your 100 entries, probably a lot more then that, and come back
> later and clean it up.
>

Yes, that is the general use case.
Unfortunately at the moment we only return codes on a netlink set
direction - but would be a beauty if we could return what succeeded
and didnt in some form of vector.
Note: all is not lost because you can always do a get afterwards and
find what is missing if you got a return code of "partial success".
Just a little less efficient..


> We return a bitmask of which operations were successful. So if SW fails
> we have both bits cleared and we abort. When SW is successful we set the
> SW bit and try to program the HW. If its sucessful we set the HW bit if
> its not we abort with an err. Converting this to (1) is not much work
> just skip the abort.
>

Ok, guess i am gonna have to go stare at the code some more.
I thought we returned one of the error codes?
A bitmask would work for a single entry - because you have two
options add to h/ware and/or s/ware. So response is easy to encode.
But if i have 1000 and they are sparsely populated (think an indexed
table and i have indices 1, 23, 45, etc), then a bitmask would be
hard to use.

cheers,
jamal
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