netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/2] Fix batched event generation for vlan action

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Message-Id: <20190806.140649.288630570722100962.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 06 Aug 2019 14:06:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mrv@...atatu.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...atatu.com, jhs@...atatu.com,
        xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jiri@...nulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] Fix batched event generation for vlan action

From: Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com>
Date: Fri,  2 Aug 2019 15:16:45 -0400

> When adding or deleting a batch of entries, the kernel sends up to
> TCA_ACT_MAX_PRIO (defined to 32 in kernel) entries in an event to user
> space. However it does not consider that the action sizes may vary and
> require different skb sizes.
> 
> For example, consider the following script adding 32 entries with all
> supported vlan parameters (in order to maximize netlink messages size):
> 
> % cat tc-batch.sh
> TC="sudo /mnt/iproute2.git/tc/tc"
> 
> $TC actions flush action vlan
> for i in `seq 1 $1`;
> do
>    cmd="action vlan push protocol 802.1q id 4094 priority 7 pipe \
>                index $i cookie aabbccddeeff112233445566778800a1 "
>    args=$args$cmd
> done
> $TC actions add $args
> %
> % ./tc-batch.sh 32
> Error: Failed to fill netlink attributes while adding TC action.
> We have an error talking to the kernel
> %
> 
> patch 1 adds callback in tc_action_ops of vlan action, which calculates
> the action size, and passes size to tcf_add_notify()/tcf_del_notify().
> 
> patch 2 updates the TDC test suite with relevant vlan test cases.

Series applied and patch #1 queued up for -stable.