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      Merge tag 'mlx5e-failsafe' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux · cc628c96
      David S. Miller authored 
      Saeed Mahameed says:

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mlx5e-failsafe 27-03-2017

This series provides a fail-safe mechanism to allow safely re-configuring
mlx5e netdevice and provides a resiliency against sporadic
configuration failures.

To enable this we do some refactoring and code reorganizing to allow
breaking the drivers open/close flows to stages:
      open -> activate -> deactivate -> close.

In addition we need to allow creating fresh HW ring resources
(mlx5e_channels) with their own "new" set of parameters, while keeping
the current ones running and active until the new channels are
successfully created with the new configuration, and only then we can
safly replace (switch) old channels with new ones.

For that we introduce mlx5e_channels object and an API to manage it:
 - channels = open_channels(new_params):
   open fresh TX/RX channels
 - activate_channels(channels):
   redirect traffic to them and attach them to the netdev
 - deactivate_channes(channels)
   stop traffic and detach from netdev
 - close(channels)
   Free the TX/RX HW resources of those channels

With the above strategy it is straightforward to achieve the desired
behavior of fail-safe configuration.  In pseudo code:

make_new_config(new_params)
{
	old_channels = current_active_channels;
	new_channels = create_channels(new_params);
	if (!new_channels)
		return "Failed, but current channels are still active :)"

	deactivate_channels(old_channels); /* Can't fail */
	set_hw_new_state();                /* If needed  */
	activate_channels(new_channels);   /* Can't fail */
	close_channels(old_channels);
	current_active_channels = new_channels;

        return "SUCCESS";
}

At the top of this series, we change the following flows to be fail-safe:
ethtool:
   - ring parameters
   - coalesce parameters
   - tx copy break parameters
   - cqe compressing/moderation mode setting (priv flags)
ndos:
   - tc setup
   - set features: LRO
   - change mtu
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Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      cc628c96
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge branch 'bond-link-status-fixes' · 95ed0edd
      David S. Miller authored 
      Mahesh Bandewar says:

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link-status fixes for mii-monitoring

The mii monitoring is divided into two phases - inspect and commit. The
inspect phase technically should not make any changes to the state and
defer it to the commit phase. However detected link state inconsistencies
on several machines and discovered that it's the result of some
inconsistent update to link states and assumption that you *always* get
rtnl-mutex. In reality when trylock() fails to acquire rtnl-mutex, the
commit phase is postponed until next mii-mon run. At the next round
because of the state change performed in the previous inspect-run, this
round does not detect any changes and would skip calling commit phase.
This would result in an inconsistent state until next link event happens
(if it ever happens).

During the the commit phase, it's always assumed that speed and duplex
fetch is always successful, but that's always not the case. However the
slave state is marked UP irrespective of speed / duplex fetch operation.
If the speed / duplex fetch operation results in insane values for either
of these two fields, then keeping internal link state UP is not going to
provide fruitful results either.

Please see into individual patches for more details.
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Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      95ed0edd
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