Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:07:57 -0700 From: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@gmail.com> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] how to get real ifi_baudrate from network interface Message-ID: <CAFPOs6qgHTa3JW_z4L6XPdm5BhWrQVdFgeEuqyHLFCnk5fcNwg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120920083409.GW37286@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <CAFPOs6oCot3Bt8S9KUoC-cELw5reP5jmwWnwxS21h=Zq3Q0d-A@mail.gmail.com> <20120920021554.GP85604@FreeBSD.org> <20120920083409.GW37286@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 06:15:54AM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 02:16:17PM -0700, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: >> M> hello, >> M> >> M> for sometime now i've been repeatedly annoyed by the fact that 10G >> M> interfaces lie about their ifi_baudrate. i would like to propose >> M> simple (hopefuly) change to address this. >> M> >> M> quick summary of the problem: >> M> >> M> struct if_data { >> M> ... >> M> u_char ifi_spare_char1; /* spare byte */ >> M> u_char ifi_spare_char2; /* spare byte */ >> M> ... >> M> u_long ifi_baudrate; /* linespeed */ >> M> ... >> M> }; >> M> >> M> as you can see ifi_baudrate is an u_long which is an arch specific >> M> type. on 32-bit arch it does not have enough bits to hold 10G line >> M> speed value (in bits per second) >> M> >> M> proposal >> M> >> M> we reuse one of the ifi_spare_char1 or ifi_spare_char2 bytes and >> M> re-purpose it as power factor to be applied to ifi_baudrate, i.e. >> M> >> M> real_ifi_baudrate = ifi_baudrate * 10 ** ifi_spare_char1 >> M> >> M> obviously, 10G nic drivers will have to set ifi_spare_char1 to >> M> appropriate value, but it should not be a big deal. also, legacy tools >> M> that do not know about ifi_spare_char1 would continue to report >> M> "wrong" ifi_baudrate as they used to. >> M> >> M> any objections? >> >> IMO, this is way to go for stable branches. In head it'll be better just >> have uint64_t without any crutches. > > You cannot do this in head either. It would break the libc exported ABI, > at least for getifaddrs(3). At least, the compat shims need to be provided, > but I suppose that breakage is much deeper. thanks. so, i take it there is no objections to the proposed hack-ish workaround? i understand that there is a desire to fix thing "the right way", but it involves breaking ABI. at least proposed hack-ish workaround gets us somewhere. if no one objects, then i will put workaround in. thanks, max
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