Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 07:29:15PM CEST, dsahern@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>On 4/20/20 8:01 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 09:54:17AM CEST, maorg@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> Add new ndo to get the xmit slave of master device.
>>> User should release the slave when it's not longer needed.
>>> When slave selection method is based on hash, then the user can ask to
>>> get the xmit slave assume all the slaves can transmit by setting the
>>> LAG_FLAGS_HASH_ALL_SLAVES bit in the flags argument.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 +++
>>> include/net/lag.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
>>> index 130a668049ab..e8852f3ad0b6 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
>>> @@ -1389,6 +1389,9 @@ struct net_device_ops {
>>> struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
>>> int (*ndo_del_slave)(struct net_device *dev,
>>> struct net_device *slave_dev);
>>> + struct net_device* (*ndo_xmit_get_slave)(struct net_device *master_dev,
>>> + struct sk_buff *skb,
>>> + u16 flags);
>>
>> Please adjust the name to:
>> ndo_get_lag_xmit_slave
>
>I disagree. There are multiple master devices and no reason to have a
>LAG specific get_slave.
Btw, did you notice that Maor is passing "lag" named values in the flags?
