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SubjectRe: [PATCH V3 net-next 1/4] net: bridge: add fdb flag to extent locked port feature
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On tis, maj 31, 2022 at 17:23, Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 11:34:21AM +0200, Hans Schultz wrote:
>> > Just to give you another data point about how this works in other
>> > devices, I can say that at least in Spectrum this works a bit
>> > differently. Packets that ingress via a locked port and incur an FDB
>> > miss are trapped to the CPU where they should be injected into the Rx
>> > path so that the bridge will create the 'locked' FDB entry and notify it
>> > to user space. The packets are obviously rated limited as the CPU cannot
>> > handle billions of packets per second, unlike the ASIC. The limit is not
>> > per bridge port (or even per bridge), but instead global to the entire
>> > device.
>>
>> Btw, will the bridge not create a SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_DEVICE event
>> towards the switchcore in the scheme you mention and thus add an entry
>> that opens up for the specified mac address?
>
> It will, but the driver needs to ignore FDB entries that are notified
> with locked flag. I see that you extended 'struct
> switchdev_notifier_fdb_info' with the locked flag, but it's not
> initialized in br_switchdev_fdb_populate(). Can you add it in the next
> version?

Yes, definitely. I have only had focus on it in the messages coming up
from the driver, and neglected it the other way.

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