> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Duyck [mailto:alexander.du...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 4:32 PM
> To: Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.kel...@intel.com>
> Cc: Brandeburg, Jesse <jesse.brandeb...@intel.com>; netdev@vger.kernel.org;
> intel-wired-...@lists.osuosl.org
> Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [jkirsher/next-queue PATCH 2/5] fm10k: Fix VLAN
> configuration for macvlan offload
> 
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Keller, Jacob E
> <jacob.e.kel...@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Alexander Duyck [mailto:alexander.du...@gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 3:04 PM
> >> To: Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.kel...@intel.com>
> >> Cc: Brandeburg, Jesse <jesse.brandeb...@intel.com>;
> netdev@vger.kernel.org;
> >> intel-wired-...@lists.osuosl.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [jkirsher/next-queue PATCH 2/5] fm10k: Fix
> VLAN
> >> configuration for macvlan offload
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Keller, Jacob E
> >> <jacob.e.kel...@intel.com> wrote:
> >> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> >> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-boun...@osuosl.org] On
> Behalf
> >> Of
> >> >> Jesse Brandeburg
> >> >> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2017 10:06 AM
> >> >> To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.du...@gmail.com>
> >> >> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; intel-wired-...@lists.osuosl.org
> >> >> Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [jkirsher/next-queue PATCH 2/5] fm10k: 
> >> >> Fix
> >> VLAN
> >> >> configuration for macvlan offload
> >> >>
> >> >> On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 16:33:45 -0700
> >> >> Alexander Duyck <alexander.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.du...@intel.com>
> >> >> >
> >> >> > The fm10k driver didn't work correctly when macvlan offload was
> enabled.
> >> >> > Specifically what would occur is that we would see no unicast packets
> being
> >> >> > received. This was traced down to us not correctly configuring the 
> >> >> > default
> >> >> > VLAN ID for the port and defaulting to 0.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > To correct this we either use the default ID provided by the switch or
> >> >> > simply use 1. With that we are able to pass and receive traffic 
> >> >> > without any
> >> >> > issues.
> >> >>
> >> >> Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeb...@intel.com>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I think this isn't quite right, since we recently made changes to the 
> >> > fm10k
> code
> >> to stop assuming VLAN 1 in these cases. I believe it should just pass the
> >> default_vid
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Jake
> >> >
> >>
> >> I kind of figured that might be the case. We can probably drop this
> >> patch for now and if you want you can work this from our end as the
> >> out-of-tree code doesn't make the upstream and I would imagine you
> >> guys are planning to upstream that patch at some point.
> >>
> >> - Alex
> >
> > I think the patch should just be changed from using
> >
> > hw->mac.default_vid ? : 1
> >
> > to just using hw->mac.default_vid directly.
> >
> > Otherwise, I think the patch is necessary.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jake
> 
> Doesn't passing a 0 in the case of the value not being populated cause
> issues? If I understand the problem I thought passing a 0 in the vlan
> ID field caused some sort of error.
> 
> - Alex

No, it just doesn't really do anything useful. But it doesn't harm anything 
either.

Using 0 on the switch side causes problems for the switch manager, but in this 
case, if we don't have a default_vid, then we aren't talking to the switch 
anyways.

Thanks,
Jake

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