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Petr Machata says: ==================== mlxsw: Permit enslavement to netdevices with uppers The mlxsw driver currently makes the assumption that the user applies configuration in a bottom-up manner. Thus netdevices need to be added to the bridge before IP addresses are configured on that bridge or SVI added on top of it. Enslaving a netdevice to another netdevice that already has uppers is in fact forbidden by mlxsw for this reason. Despite this safety, it is rather easy to get into situations where the offloaded configuration is just plain wrong. As an example, take a front panel port, configure an IP address: it gets a RIF. Now enslave the port to the bridge, and the RIF is gone. Remove the port from the bridge again, but the RIF never comes back. There is a number of similar situations, where changing the configuration there and back utterly breaks the offload. Similarly, detaching a front panel port from a configured topology means unoffloading of this whole topology -- VLAN uppers, next hops, etc. Attaching the port back is then not permitted at all. If it were, it would not result in a working configuration, because much of mlxsw is written to react to changes in immediate configuration. There is nothing that would go visit netdevices in the attached-to topology and offload existing routes and VLAN memberships, for example. In this patchset, introduce a number of replays to be invoked so that this sort of post-hoc offload is supported. Then remove the vetoes that disallowed enslavement of front panel ports to other netdevices with uppers. The patchset progresses as follows: - In patch #1, fix an issue in the bridge driver. To my knowledge, the issue could not have resulted in a buggy behavior previously, and thus is packaged with this patchset instead of being sent separately to net. - In patch #2, add a new helper to the switchdev code. - In patch #3, drop mlxsw selftests that will not be relevant after this patchset anymore. - Patches #4, #5, #6, #7 and #8 prepare the codebase for smoother introduction of the rest of the code. - Patches #9, #10, #11, #12, #13 and #14 replay various aspects of upper configuration when a front panel port is introduced into a topology. Individual patches take care of bridge and LAG RIF memberships, switchdev replay, nexthop and neighbors replay, and MACVLAN offload. - Patches #15 and #16 introduce RIFs for newly-relevant netdevices when a front panel port is enslaved (in which case all uppers are newly relevant), or, respectively, deslaved (in which case the newly-relevant netdevice is the one being deslaved). - Up until this point, the introduced scaffolding was not really used, because mlxsw still forbids enslavement of mlxsw netdevices to uppers with uppers. In patch #17, this condition is finally relaxed. A sizable selftest suite is available to test all this new code. That will be sent in a separate patchset. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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