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authorPetr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>2024-11-14 15:09:53 +0100
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2024-11-15 16:39:18 -0800
commit4b42fbc6bd8f73d9ded535d8c61ccaa837ff3bd4 (patch)
tree5e8a0d38fd88d9af0bcdaf603bebb001dd5ba7d0 /include/linux
parent2a8ce470c59e6a0822291ec6cf5fd5fde5561fdf (diff)
ndo_fdb_add: Add a parameter to report whether notification was sent
Currently when FDB entries are added to or deleted from a VXLAN netdevice, the VXLAN driver emits one notification, including the VXLAN-specific attributes. The core however always sends a notification as well, a generic one. Thus two notifications are unnecessarily sent for these operations. A similar situation comes up with bridge driver, which also emits notifications on its own: # ip link add name vx type vxlan id 1000 dstport 4789 # bridge monitor fdb & [1] 1981693 # bridge fdb add de:ad:be:ef:13:37 dev vx self dst 192.0.2.1 de:ad:be:ef:13:37 dev vx dst 192.0.2.1 self permanent de:ad:be:ef:13:37 dev vx self permanent In order to prevent this duplicity, add a paremeter to ndo_fdb_add, bool *notified. The flag is primed to false, and if the callee sends a notification on its own, it sets it to true, thus informing the core that it should not generate another notification. Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Cohen <amcohen@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/cbf6ae8195e85cbf922f8058ce4eba770f3b71ed.1731589511.git.petrm@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 0aae346d919e..6a7fd191e1ee 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1248,8 +1248,10 @@ struct netdev_net_notifier {
* int (*ndo_fdb_add)(struct ndmsg *ndm, struct nlattr *tb[],
* struct net_device *dev,
* const unsigned char *addr, u16 vid, u16 flags,
- * struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
+ * bool *notified, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
* Adds an FDB entry to dev for addr.
+ * Callee shall set *notified to true if it sent any appropriate
+ * notification(s). Otherwise core will send a generic one.
* int (*ndo_fdb_del)(struct ndmsg *ndm, struct nlattr *tb[],
* struct net_device *dev,
* const unsigned char *addr, u16 vid)
@@ -1525,6 +1527,7 @@ struct net_device_ops {
const unsigned char *addr,
u16 vid,
u16 flags,
+ bool *notified,
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack);
int (*ndo_fdb_del)(struct ndmsg *ndm,
struct nlattr *tb[],