Re: [PATCH net] bonding: show saner speed for broadcast mode

From: Jay Vosburgh
Date: Thu Aug 13 2020 - 01:30:04 EST


Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Broadcast mode bonds transmit a copy of all traffic simultaneously out of
>all interfaces, so the "speed" of the bond isn't really the aggregate of
>all interfaces, but rather, the speed of the lowest active interface.

Did you mean "slowest" here?

>Also, the type of the speed field is u32, not unsigned long, so adjust
>that accordingly, as required to make min() function here without
>complaining about mismatching types.
>
>Fixes: bb5b052f751b ("bond: add support to read speed and duplex via ethtool")
>CC: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@xxxxxxxxx>
>CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@xxxxxxxxx>
>CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>CC: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>

Did you notice this by inspection, or did it come up in use
somewhere? I can't recall ever hearing of anyone using broadcast mode,
so I'm curious if there is a use for it, but this change seems
reasonable enough regardless.

-J

Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


>---
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>index 5ad43aaf76e5..c853ca67058c 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>@@ -4552,13 +4552,23 @@ static netdev_tx_t bond_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
> return ret;
> }
>
>+static u32 bond_mode_bcast_speed(struct slave *slave, u32 speed)
>+{
>+ if (speed == 0 || speed == SPEED_UNKNOWN)
>+ speed = slave->speed;
>+ else
>+ speed = min(speed, slave->speed);
>+
>+ return speed;
>+}
>+
> static int bond_ethtool_get_link_ksettings(struct net_device *bond_dev,
> struct ethtool_link_ksettings *cmd)
> {
> struct bonding *bond = netdev_priv(bond_dev);
>- unsigned long speed = 0;
> struct list_head *iter;
> struct slave *slave;
>+ u32 speed = 0;
>
> cmd->base.duplex = DUPLEX_UNKNOWN;
> cmd->base.port = PORT_OTHER;
>@@ -4570,8 +4580,13 @@ static int bond_ethtool_get_link_ksettings(struct net_device *bond_dev,
> */
> bond_for_each_slave(bond, slave, iter) {
> if (bond_slave_can_tx(slave)) {
>- if (slave->speed != SPEED_UNKNOWN)
>- speed += slave->speed;
>+ if (slave->speed != SPEED_UNKNOWN) {
>+ if (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_BROADCAST)
>+ speed = bond_mode_bcast_speed(slave,
>+ speed);
>+ else
>+ speed += slave->speed;
>+ }
> if (cmd->base.duplex == DUPLEX_UNKNOWN &&
> slave->duplex != DUPLEX_UNKNOWN)
> cmd->base.duplex = slave->duplex;
>--
>2.20.1
>