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SubjectRE: [PATCH net-next] net: mana: Add support for jumbo frame
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> From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2023 7:33 AM
> To: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: mana: Add support for jumbo frame
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> Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> :
> > > From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
> [...]
> > > I do not see where the driver could depend on the MTU. Even if it fails,
> > > a single call to mana_change_mtu should thus never wreck the old working
> > > state/configuration.
> > >
> > > Stated differently, the detach/attach implementation is simple but
> > > it makes the driver less reliable than it could be.
> > >
> > > No ?
> >
> > No, it doesn't make the driver less reliable. To safely remove and reallocate
> > DMA buffers with different size, we have to stop the traffic. So,
> mana_detach()
> > is called. We also call mana_detach() in mana_close(). So the process in
> > mana_change_mtu() is no more risky than ifdown/ifup of the NIC.
> >
> > In some rare cases, if the system memory is running really low, the bigger
> > buffer allocation may fail, so we re-try with the previous MTU. I don't expect
> > it to fail again. But we still check & log the error code for completeness and
> > debugging.
>
> In a ideal world, I would expect change_mtu() to allocate the new resources,
> bail out if some allocation fails, stop the traffic, swap the old and new
> resources, then restart the traffic and release the old resources.
> This way the device is never left in a failed state.

Thanks for the idea -- I will look into that. But the real world implementation may
be less than ideal :)

- Haiyang

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