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| author | Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> | 2019-11-25 10:46:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-06-22 09:30:56 +0200 |
| commit | f503e7fe3099a740741088f57993edecb13524ef (patch) | |
| tree | 1e7a692d9ff6e5f195d777bfd9e63d4b5caaaf54 /net/batman-adv | |
| parent | 8cf93ef213f9c335e38db44a2c0b5ed44a146ec7 (diff) | |
batman-adv: Revert "disable ethtool link speed detection when auto negotiation off"
[ Upstream commit 9ad346c90509ebd983f60da7d082f261ad329507 ]
The commit 8c46fcd78308 ("batman-adv: disable ethtool link speed detection
when auto negotiation off") disabled the usage of ethtool's link_ksetting
when auto negotation was enabled due to invalid values when used with
tun/tap virtual net_devices. According to the patch, automatic measurements
should be used for these kind of interfaces.
But there are major flaws with this argumentation:
* automatic measurements are not implemented
* auto negotiation has nothing to do with the validity of the retrieved
values
The first point has to be fixed by a longer patch series. The "validity"
part of the second point must be addressed in the same patch series by
dropping the usage of ethtool's link_ksetting (thus always doing automatic
measurements over ethernet).
Drop the patch again to have more default values for various net_device
types/configurations. The user can still overwrite them using the
batadv_hardif's BATADV_ATTR_THROUGHPUT_OVERRIDE.
Reported-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/batman-adv')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c index 2614a9caee00..a39af0eefad3 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c @@ -120,20 +120,7 @@ static u32 batadv_v_elp_get_throughput(struct batadv_hardif_neigh_node *neigh) rtnl_lock(); ret = __ethtool_get_link_ksettings(hard_iface->net_dev, &link_settings); rtnl_unlock(); - - /* Virtual interface drivers such as tun / tap interfaces, VLAN, etc - * tend to initialize the interface throughput with some value for the - * sake of having a throughput number to export via ethtool. This - * exported throughput leaves batman-adv to conclude the interface - * throughput is genuine (reflecting reality), thus no measurements - * are necessary. - * - * Based on the observation that those interface types also tend to set - * the link auto-negotiation to 'off', batman-adv shall check this - * setting to differentiate between genuine link throughput information - * and placeholders installed by virtual interfaces. - */ - if (ret == 0 && link_settings.base.autoneg == AUTONEG_ENABLE) { + if (ret == 0) { /* link characteristics might change over time */ if (link_settings.base.duplex == DUPLEX_FULL) hard_iface->bat_v.flags |= BATADV_FULL_DUPLEX; |