Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 04:51:15PM CET, j...@resnulli.us wrote: >Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 04:33:48PM CET, da...@davemloft.net wrote: >>From: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> >>Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 11:12:57 +0100 >> >>> No magic. ens8 and ens7 share the same block. >> >>No Jiri, the fact that they share the same block _IS MAGIC_. >> >>It is unexpected behavior to modify a rule and have it propagate >>to devices not mentioned in the command line. >> >>This is totally going to break things and upset people. >> >>Saying it shows up in some tc dump command is not an argument >>for this behavior being "expected". NO way. >> >>I completely agree with David and others, you _MUST_ make an >>explicit API and set of operations to make changes to rules >>contained in shared blocks. > >Okay. So you say that when I create a qdisc and its block is created, I >can never share it. > >I have to always explicitly create block to share and only then to bind >it to some qdisc/s?
I think I have the idea. It can work as usual until the block gets to be shared, then only the block-specific things would work. The exisint filter add and filter should would error out (with extack message why). Ok, I'm on it. Thanks.
