On 2/26/2019 10:45 AM, Ivan Khoronzhuk wrote: > Despite this is supposed to be used for Ethernet VLANs, not Ethernet > addresses with space for VID also can reuse this, so VID is considered > as virtual ID extension, not belonging strictly to Ethernet VLAN VIDs, > and overall change can be named individual virtual device filtering > (IVDF). > > This patch adds VID tag at the end of each address. The actual > reserved address size is 32 bytes. For Ethernet addresses with 6 bytes > long that's possible to add tag w/o increasing address size. Thus, > each address for the case has 32 - 6 = 26 bytes to hold additional > info, say VID for virtual device addresses. > > Therefore, when addresses are synced to the address list of parent > device the address list of latter can contain separate addresses for > virtual devices. It allows to track separate address tables for > virtual devices if they present and the device can be placed on > any place of device tree as the address is propagated to to the end > real device thru *_sync()/ndo_set_rx_mode() APIs. Also it simplifies > handling VID addresses at real device when it supports IVDF. > > If parent device doesn't want to have virtual addresses in its address > space the vid_len has to be 0, thus its address space is "shrunk" to > the state as before this patch. For now it's 0 for every device. It > allows two devices with and w/o IVDF to be part of same bond device > for instance. > > The end real device supporting IVDF can retrieve VID tag from an > address and set it for a given virtual device only. By default, vid 0 > is used for real devices to distinguish it from virtual addresses. > > See next patches to see how it's used. > > Signed-off-by: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- [snip] > @@ -1889,6 +1890,7 @@ struct net_device { > unsigned char perm_addr[MAX_ADDR_LEN]; > unsigned char addr_assign_type; > unsigned char addr_len; > + unsigned char vid_len; Have not compiled or tested this patch series yet, but did you check that adding this member does not change the structure layout (you can use pahole for that purpose). > unsigned short neigh_priv_len; > unsigned short dev_id; > unsigned short dev_port; > @@ -4141,8 +4143,10 @@ int dev_addr_init(struct net_device *dev); > > /* Functions used for unicast addresses handling */ > int dev_uc_add(struct net_device *dev, const unsigned char *addr); > +int dev_vid_uc_add(struct net_device *dev, const unsigned char *addr); > int dev_uc_add_excl(struct net_device *dev, const unsigned char *addr); > int dev_uc_del(struct net_device *dev, const unsigned char *addr); > +int dev_vid_uc_del(struct net_device *dev, const unsigned char *addr); > int dev_uc_sync(struct net_device *to, struct net_device *from); > int dev_uc_sync_multiple(struct net_device *to, struct net_device *from); > void dev_uc_unsync(struct net_device *to, struct net_device *from); > diff --git a/net/core/dev_addr_lists.c b/net/core/dev_addr_lists.c > index a6723b306717..e3c80e044b8c 100644 > --- a/net/core/dev_addr_lists.c > +++ b/net/core/dev_addr_lists.c > @@ -545,6 +545,26 @@ int dev_addr_del(struct net_device *dev, const unsigned char *addr, > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_addr_del); > > +static int get_addr_len(struct net_device *dev) > +{ > + return dev->addr_len + dev->vid_len; > +} > + > +static int set_vid_addr(struct net_device *dev, const unsigned char *addr, > + unsigned char *naddr) Having some kernel doc comments here would be nice to indicate that the return value is dev->addr_len, it was not obvious until I saw in the next function how you used it. > +{ > + int i; > + > + if (!dev->vid_len) > + return dev->addr_len; > + > + memcpy(naddr, addr, dev->addr_len); > + for (i = 0; i < dev->vid_len; i++) > + naddr[dev->addr_len + i] = 0; memset(naddr + dev->addr_len, 0, dev->vid_len) would be more compact and maybe a little less error prone too? -- Florian