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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/4] net: switchdev: add support for offloading of fdb locked flag
On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 11:32:08AM +0100, Hans Schultz wrote:
> On ons, mar 23, 2022 at 16:43, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 01:49:32PM +0100, Hans Schultz wrote:
> >> >> Does someone have an idea why there at this point is no option to add a
> >> >> dynamic fdb entry?
> >> >>
> >> >> The fdb added entries here do not age out, while the ATU entries do
> >> >> (after 5 min), resulting in unsynced ATU vs fdb.
> >> >
> >> > I think the expectation is to use br_fdb_external_learn_del() if the
> >> > externally learned entry expires. The bridge should not age by itself
> >> > FDB entries learned externally.
> >> >
> >>
> >> It seems to me that something is missing then?
> >> My tests using trafgen that I gave a report on to Lunn generated massive
> >> amounts of fdb entries, but after a while the ATU was clean and the fdb
> >> was still full of random entries...
> >
> > I'm no longer sure where you are, sorry..
> > I think we discussed that you need to enable ATU age interrupts in order
> > to keep the ATU in sync with the bridge FDB? Which means either to
> > delete the locked FDB entries from the bridge when they age out in the
> > ATU, or to keep refreshing locked ATU entries.
> > So it seems that you're doing neither of those 2 things if you end up
> > with bridge FDB entries which are no longer in the ATU.
>
> Any idea why G2 offset 5 ATUAgeIntEn (bit 10) is set? There is no define
> for it, so I assume it is something default?

No idea, but I can confirm that the out-of-reset value I see for
MV88E6XXX_G2_SWITCH_MGMT on 6190 and 6390 is 0x400. It's best not to
rely on any reset defaults though.

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