netdev - Re: [PATCH] bonding: Always enable vlan tx offload

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Date:   Thu, 27 Jun 2019 01:29:53 +0200
From:   Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: Always enable vlan tx offload

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 06:48:53PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 06:13:38PM CEST, mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 04:08:44PM +0800, YueHaibing wrote:
[...]
> >> This patch always enable bonding's vlan tx offload, pass the vlan
> >> packets to the slave devices with vlan tci, let them to handle
> >> vlan implementation.
[...]
> >I can see that bonding driver uses dev_queue_xmit() to pass packets to
> >slave links, but I can't see where in the path it does software fallback
> >for devices without HW VLAN tagging. Generally drivers that don't ever
> >do VLAN offload also ignore vlan_tci presence. Am I missing something
> >here?

> validate_xmit_skb->validate_xmit_vlan

Yes it is. Thanks!

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław