On 17 Jan 2024, at 12:16, Ilya Maximets wrote:

> On 1/16/24 15:26, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 16 Jan 2024, at 15:20, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/27/23 12:15, Mohammad Heib wrote:
>>>> Store igmp/mld protocol version into the
>>>> mcast_group internally, the multicast snooping feature
>>>> is used by many OVS consumers and those consumers heavily rely
>>>> on the OVS implementation to manage/deal with mcast groups,
>>>> some of those consumers also need to deal/expose the mcast protocol
>>>> to the end user for debuggability purposes.
>>>>
>>>> OVN for example needs to expose the protocol version to the end user
>>>> to match between the protocol version used in the OVN logical switches
>>>> and the uplink ports
>>>>
>>>> Therefore, instead of implementing this in each OVS consumer that needs
>>>> to deal mcast group protocol version which will be very complicated
>>>> implementation since it rely on the OVS code, saving the protocol to
>>>> the mdb inside OVS will give that consumer access to the protocol version
>>>> very easily.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Mohammad Heib <mh...@redhat.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> v6: Rebase on top of current master.
>>>>     Address comments from Eelco:
>>>>     - hardcode MCAST_GROUP_IGMPV3 inside mcast_snooping_add_report
>>>>       function.
>>>> ---
>>>
>>> Hi, Eelco and Simon, do you have any further comments on this patch set?
>>> i.e. did you have a chance to review this version?  I see you both looked
>>> at the previous ones.
>>>
>>> I see some conversation here, but I'm not sure if it is resolved or not.
>>>
>>> (I didn't review the code myself and will likley not have much time before
>>> branching tomorrow.)
>>
>> My plan was to do it todays morning, but did not happen :) Will do it before 
>> the end of the day.
>
> Thanks, Eelco.
>
> I see the changes you requested are mostly cosmetic.  Will you be comfortable
> making them yourself while applying the set?  Asking because I believe
> Mohammad is on PTO and will not be able to follow up with a new version before
> branching, i.e. the feature may miss the release.
>
> Maybe also add a small NEWS entry to the ovs-appctl section that mdb/show now
> provides multicast group protocol information.

Sound good to me, let me prepare this. If you see any issues with my 
suggestions let me know, else I’ll commit.

//Eelco

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