netdev - Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 07/10] net: dsa: allow changing the tag protocol via the "tagging" device attribute

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Date:   Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:38:57 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
        Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Alexandru Marginean <alexandru.marginean@....com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Xiaoliang Yang <xiaoliang.yang_1@....com>,
        Hongbo Wang <hongbo.wang@....com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
        Po Liu <po.liu@....com>, Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@....com>,
        Maxim Kochetkov <fido_max@...ox.ru>,
        Eldar Gasanov <eldargasanov2@...il.com>,
        Andrey L <al@...omtech.com>,
        Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@...dekranz.com>,
        UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 07/10] net: dsa: allow changing the tag
 protocol via the "tagging" device attribute



On 1/21/2021 8:01 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
> 
> Currently DSA exposes the following sysfs:
> $ cat /sys/class/net/eno2/dsa/tagging
> ocelot
> 
> which is a read-only device attribute, introduced in the kernel as
> commit 98cdb4807123 ("net: dsa: Expose tagging protocol to user-space"),
> and used by libpcap since its commit 993db3800d7d ("Add support for DSA
> link-layer types").
> 
> It would be nice if we could extend this device attribute by making it
> writable:
> $ echo ocelot-8021q > /sys/class/net/eno2/dsa/tagging
> 
> This is useful with DSA switches that can make use of more than one
> tagging protocol. It may be useful in dsa_loop in the future too, to
> perform offline testing of various taggers, or for changing between dsa
> and edsa on Marvell switches, if that is desirable.
> 
> In terms of implementation, drivers can now move their tagging protocol
> configuration outside of .setup/.teardown, and into .set_tag_protocol
> and .del_tag_protocol. The calling order is:
> 
> .setup -> [.set_tag_protocol -> .del_tag_protocol]+ -> .teardown
> 
> There was one more contract between the DSA framework and drivers, which
> is that if a CPU port needs to account for the tagger overhead in its
> MTU configuration, it must do that privately. Which means it needs the
> information about what tagger it uses before we call its MTU
> configuration function. That promise is still held.
> 
> Writing to the tagging sysfs will first tear down the tagging protocol
> for all switches in the tree attached to that DSA master, then will
> attempt setup with the new tagger.
> 
> Writing will fail quickly with -EOPNOTSUPP for drivers that don't
> support .set_tag_protocol, since that is checked during the deletion
> phase. It is assumed that all switches within the same DSA tree use the
> same driver, and therefore either all have .set_tag_protocol implemented,
> or none do.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian