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Date:   Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:58:36 +0100
From:   Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: vlan: allow vlan device MTU change follow real
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 08:03:42AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 12:26:18 +0100 Guillaume Nault wrote:
> > Do you mean something like:
> > 
> >   ip link set dev eth0 vlan-mtu-policy <policy-name>
> > 
> > that'd affect all existing (and future) vlans of eth0?
> 
> I meant
> 
>   ip link set dev vlan0 mtu-policy blah
> 
> but also
> 
>   ip link set dev bond0 mtu-policy blah
> 
> and
> 
>   ip link set dev macsec0 mtu-policy blah2
>   ip link set dev vxlan0 mtu-policy blah2
> 
> etc.

Unless I'm missing something, that looks very much like what I proposed
(these are all ARPHRD_ETHER devices). It's just a bit unclear whether
"ip link set dev vlan0 mtu-policy blah" applies to vlan0 or to the vlans
that might be stacked on top of it (given your other examples, I assume
it's the later).

> > Then I think that for non-ethernet devices, we should reject this
> > option and skip it when dumping config. But yes, that's another
> > possibility.
> > 
> > I personnaly don't really mind, as long as we keep a clear behaviour.
> > 
> > What I'd really like to avoid is something like:
> >   - By default it behaves this way.
> >   - If you modified the MTU it behaves in another way
> >   - But if you modified the MTU but later restored the
> >     original MTU, then you're back to the default behaviour
> >     (or not?), unless the MTU of the upper device was also
> >     changed meanwhile, in which case ... to be continued ...
> >   - BTW, you might not be able to tell how the VLAN's MTU is going to
> >     behave by simply looking at its configuration, because that also
> >     depends on past configurations.
> >   - Well, and if your kernel is older than xxx, then you always get the
> >     default behaviour.
> >   - ... and we might modify the heuristics again in the future to
> >     accomodate with situations or use cases we failed to consider.
> 
> To be honest I'm still not clear if this is a real problem.
> The patch does not specify what the use case is.

It's probably not a problem as long as we keep sane behaviour by
default. Then we can let admins opt in for something more complex or
loosely defined.