netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: fix bonding with ARP monitoring by updating trans

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Date:   Fri, 15 Jul 2022 16:52:36 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@...hat.com>,
        Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
        Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>,
        Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>,
        Brian Hutchinson <b.hutchman@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: fix bonding with ARP monitoring by updating
 trans_start manually



On 7/15/2022 4:26 PM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Documentation/networking/bonding.rst points out that for ARP monitoring
> to work, dev_trans_start() must be able to verify the latest trans_start
> update of any slave_dev TX queue. However, with NETIF_F_LLTX,
> netdev_start_xmit() -> txq_trans_update() fails to do anything, because
> the TX queue hasn't been locked.
> 
> Fix this by manually updating the current TX queue's trans_start for
> each packet sent.
> 
> Fixes: 2b86cb829976 ("net: dsa: declare lockless TX feature for slave ports")
> Reported-by: Brian Hutchinson <b.hutchman@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

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

Had seen the recent veth change but did not consider that it would be 
applicable to DSA somehow although it certainly is. Thanks!
-- 
Florian