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[iwl,next-queue,07/10] macvlan: Provide function for interfaces to release HW offload

Message ID 20180403211630.7880.85594.stgit@ahduyck-green-test.jf.intel.com
State Accepted
Delegated to: Jeff Kirsher
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Series Clean-up macvlan offloading | expand

Commit Message

Duyck, Alexander H April 3, 2018, 9:16 p.m. UTC
This patch provides a basic function to allow a lower device to disable
macvlan offload if it was previously enabled on a given macvlan. The idea
here is to allow for recovery from failure should the lowerdev run out of
resources.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
---
 include/linux/if_macvlan.h |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

Comments

Bowers, AndrewX April 10, 2018, 10:15 p.m. UTC | #1
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces@osuosl.org] On
> Behalf Of Alexander Duyck
> Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 2:17 PM
> To: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org; Kirsher, Jeffrey T
> <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [iwl next-queue PATCH 07/10] macvlan: Provide
> function for interfaces to release HW offload
> 
> This patch provides a basic function to allow a lower device to disable
> macvlan offload if it was previously enabled on a given macvlan. The idea
> here is to allow for recovery from failure should the lowerdev run out of
> resources.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/if_macvlan.h |    8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/if_macvlan.h b/include/linux/if_macvlan.h
index 0221390..2e55e4c 100644
--- a/include/linux/if_macvlan.h
+++ b/include/linux/if_macvlan.h
@@ -97,4 +97,12 @@  static inline bool macvlan_supports_dest_filter(struct net_device *dev)
 	       macvlan->mode == MACVLAN_MODE_VEPA ||
 	       macvlan->mode == MACVLAN_MODE_BRIDGE;
 }
+
+static inline int macvlan_release_l2fw_offload(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	struct macvlan_dev *macvlan = netdev_priv(dev);
+
+	macvlan->accel_priv = NULL;
+	return dev_uc_add(macvlan->lowerdev, dev->dev_addr);
+}
 #endif /* _LINUX_IF_MACVLAN_H */