netdev - RE: [PATCH net-next 1/2] cxgb4/cxgb4vf: Add support for ndo_set_vf

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Date:   Wed, 24 Aug 2016 10:02:57 +0000
From:   Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com>
To:     Hariprasad Shenai <hariprasad@...lsio.com>
CC:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "leedom@...lsio.com" <leedom@...lsio.com>,
        "nirranjan@...lsio.com" <nirranjan@...lsio.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next 1/2] cxgb4/cxgb4vf: Add support for
 ndo_set_vf_vlan

> > Are you preventing VGT configuration once VST is configured?
> > If not, what to prevent VM user from configuring vlan interfaces on
> > top of the VF, even if VST is configured?
> Again this misses documentation, what if VLAN interface is already configured in
> VM before VST is configured.
> Before there were callbacks to add/remove vlan interface, now that is removed
> how to achieve it?
>     OR
> am I missing something?

I can only offer what our drivers [bnx2x, qed*] are doing - 
  -  VST is achieved by FW adding the vlan tag [unknowingly to VF] on egress traffic,
and silently stripping the vlan tag from the incoming traffic [so VF driver never
sees the tag].
  - Once VST is enabled, device [well, actually PF driver] would reject any further
requests for configuring VGT.
  - Once VST is configured, device would silently drop any vlan-tagged egress
Traffic sent  by VF, and would classify incoming traffic for that VF only if it's
tagged with the VGT vlan-id.
This has the effect of making existing vlan-interface over the VF completely
dysfunctional [as all transmissions from them would be dropped and they'll
never see any additional incoming traffic].