From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dispatch1-us1.ppe-hosted.com (dispatch1-us1.ppe-hosted.com [67.231.154.164]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 864F11B016; Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:00:10 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Proofpoint Essentials engine Received: from webmail.solarflare.com (webmail.solarflare.com [12.187.104.26]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1-us1.ppe-hosted.com (Proofpoint Essentials ESMTP Server) with ESMTPS id E406914005C; Wed, 20 Dec 2017 10:00:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.38.17] (84.52.114.114) by ocex03.SolarFlarecom.com (10.20.40.36) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1044.25; Wed, 20 Dec 2017 02:00:04 -0800 From: Andrew Rybchenko To: Olivier MATZ , Ivan Malov CC: Igor Ryzhov , , Thomas Monjalon , Laurent Hardy , References: <20171214171531.10506-1-olivier.matz@6wind.com> <20171219092932.5k5sg3eemfghatkl@glumotte.dev.6wind.com> Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:00:01 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB X-Originating-IP: [84.52.114.114] X-ClientProxiedBy: ocex03.SolarFlarecom.com (10.20.40.36) To ocex03.SolarFlarecom.com (10.20.40.36) X-MDID: 1513764009-YIMGC2dB9cPp Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: fix setting of MAC address X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 10:00:10 -0000 On 12/19/2017 12:47 PM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote: > On 12/19/2017 12:29 PM, Olivier MATZ wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 02:38:55PM +0300, Andrew Rybchenko wrote: >>> On 12/18/2017 01:53 PM, Igor Ryzhov wrote: >>>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Andrew Rybchenko >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>      On 12/14/2017 08:15 PM, Olivier Matz wrote: >>>> >>>>          From: Laurent Hardy >>>          > >>>> >>>>          When a new mac address is set, it is saved in >>>> dev->data->mac_addrs >>>>          before the ethdev handler is called. >>>> >>>>          First, it is inconsistent with the other ethdev functions >>>>          rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_remove() and rte_eth_dev_mac_addr_add(). >>>> >>>>          Moreover, it prevents the drivers from wrongly comparing the >>>>          old address >>>>          and the new one, like it's done in i40evf driver: >>>> >>>>                  if (is_same_ether_addr(mac_addr, >>>> dev->data->mac_addrs)) >>>>                          return; >>>> >>>>          Fixes: 943c2d899a0c ("net/i40e: set VF MAC from VF") >>>>          Fixes: 854d8ad4ef68 ("ethdev: add default mac address >>>> modifier") >>>>          Cc: stable@dpdk.org >>>> >>>>          Signed-off-by: Laurent Hardy >>>          > >>>>          --- >>>>            lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c | 4 ++-- >>>>            1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >>>> >>>>          diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c >>>>          b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c >>>>          index 4f492e3db..297c02a54 100644 >>>>          --- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c >>>>          +++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c >>>>          @@ -2643,11 +2643,11 @@ >>>>          rte_eth_dev_default_mac_addr_set(uint16_t port_id, struct >>>>          ether_addr *addr) >>>>                  dev = &rte_eth_devices[port_id]; >>>> RTE_FUNC_PTR_OR_ERR_RET(*dev->dev_ops->mac_addr_set, >>>>          -ENOTSUP); >>>>            +     (*dev->dev_ops->mac_addr_set)(dev, addr); >>>>          + >>>>                  /* Update default address in NIC data structure */ >>>>                  ether_addr_copy(addr, &dev->data->mac_addrs[0]); >>>>            -     (*dev->dev_ops->mac_addr_set)(dev, addr); >>>>          - >>>>                  return 0; >>>>            } >>>> >>>> >>>>      NACK, unfortunately it will break net/sfc in one of branches when >>>>      a new MAC >>>>      is set using restart. It relies on the fact that a new MAC is >>>>      already available in >>>>      device data. >>>> >>>> >>>> Hello Andrew, >>>> >>>> Don't you think that it's not correct that net/sfc works that way? >>>> >>>> If we go further, dev->dev_ops->mac_addr_set not only should be called >>> before ether_addr_copy. >>>> It should  return status code, and in case of error ether_addr_copy >>>> shouldn't be >>> called at all. >>>> Am I wrong? >> Yes, I also have the same feeling. >> >>> Current behaviour is convenient. Alternative will require copy of MAC >>> address >>> to set in device private data and one more copy in the function to >>> rollback >>> in >>> the case of failure. If there are good reasons to change behaviour, >>> I don't >>> mind but PMDs should be reviewed carefully and fixed before the change. >> Right. The first version of the patch was just a fix of the i40e code, >> which was of course less risky. But we finally decided to to that way >> for consistency. >> >> I will review the other PMDs and send a v2 that should not break >> them. If you have any guidelines for net/sfc, they will be welcome :) > > We'll send net/sfc patch today/tomorrow to fix it. Done [1] [1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-December/084526.html