Re: [PATCH net-next v3 3/3] virtio-net: synchronize operstate with admin state on up/down

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On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 2:53 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 2:00 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 09:19:02AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 11:03 AM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 9:28 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 04:02:14PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > > > > This patch synchronize operstate with admin state per RFC2863.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is done by trying to toggle the carrier upon open/close and
> > > > > > synchronize with the config change work. This allows propagate status
> > > > > > correctly to stacked devices like:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ip link add link enp0s3 macvlan0 type macvlan
> > > > > > ip link set link enp0s3 down
> > > > > > ip link show
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Before this patch:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 3: enp0s3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> > > > > >     link/ether 00:00:05:00:00:09 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> > > > > > ......
> > > > > > 5: macvlan0@enp0s3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP,M-DOWN> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> > > > > >     link/ether b2:a9:c5:04:da:53 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> > > > > >
> > > > > > After this patch:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 3: enp0s3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> > > > > >     link/ether 00:00:05:00:00:09 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > > 5: macvlan0@enp0s3: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,M-DOWN> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state LOWERLAYERDOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> > > > > >     link/ether b2:a9:c5:04:da:53 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> > > > >
> > > > > I think that the commit log is confusing. It seems to say that
> > > > > the issue fixed is synchronizing state with hardware
> > > > > config change.
> > > > > But your example does not show any
> > > > > hardware change. Isn't this example really just
> > > > > a side effect of setting carrier off on close?
> > > >
> > > > The main goal for this patch is to make virtio-net follow RFC2863. The
> > > > main thing that is missed is to synchronize the operstate with admin
> > > > state, if we do this, we get several good results, one of the obvious
> > > > one is to allow virtio-net to propagate status to the upper layer, for
> > > > example if the admin state of the lower virtio-net is down it should
> > > > be propagated to the macvlan on top, so I give the example of using a
> > > > stacked device. I'm not we had others but the commit log is probably
> > > > too small to say all of it.
> > >
> > > Michael, any more comments on this?
> > >
> > > Thans
> >
> >
> > Still don't get it, sorry.
> > > > > > This is done by trying to toggle the carrier upon open/close and
> > > > > > synchronize with the config change work.
> > What does this sentence mean? What is not synchronized with config
> > change that needs to be?
>
> I meant,
>
> 1) maclvan depends on the linkwatch to transfer operstate from the
> lower device to itself.
> 2) ndo_open()/close() will not trigger the linkwatch so we need to do
> it by ourselves in virtio-net to make sure macvlan get the correct
> opersate
> 3) consider config change work can change the state so ndo_close()
> needs to synchronize with it
>
> Thanks

Michael, are you fine with the above or I miss something there?

Thanks






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