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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:04:41 +0200
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
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Subject: Re: [patch net-next v3 01/11] devlink: remove devlink features
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 09:23:23AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 08:36:36AM CET, leon@...nel.org wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 12:59:15PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> >> On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 08:12:10 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >> >> Right, but this is not 100% equivalent because we generate the
> >> >> notifications _before_ we try to reload_down:
> >> >>
> >> >> devlink_ns_change_notify(devlink, dest_net, curr_net, false);
> >> >> err = devlink->ops->reload_down(devlink, !!dest_net, action, limit, extack);
> >> >> if (err)
> >> >> return err;
> >> >>
> >> >> IDK why, I haven't investigated.
> >> >
> >> > Right, but that is done even in other cases where down can't be done. I
> >> > I think there's a bug here, down DEL notification is sent before calling
> >> > down which can potentially fail. I think the notification call should be
> >> > moved after reload_down() call. Then the bahaviour would stay the same
> >> > for the features case and will get fixed for the reload_down() reject
> >> > cases. What do you think?
> >>
> >> I was gonna say that it sounds reasonable, and that maybe we should
> >> be in fact using devlink_notify_register() instead of the custom
> >> instance-and-params-only devlink_ns_change_notify().
> >>
> >> But then I looked at who added this counter-intuitive code
> >> and found out it's for a reason - see 05a7f4a8dff19.
> >>
> >> So you gotta check if mlx5 still has this problem...
> >
> >I don't see anything in the tree what will prevent the issue
> >which I wrote in 05a7f4a8dff19.
>
> Okay. I will remove this patch from the set and address this in a
> separate patchset. Thanks!
BTW, I tried your v3 series and it caused to tests which changes
switchdev mode to stuck.
I'll try v4 now.
Thanks
>
> >
> >Thanks
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