linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 3/9] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add support for VTU ops

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Message-ID: <55709779.4040101@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date:	Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:22:49 -0700
From:	nolan <nolan@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
CC:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	Jerome Oufella <jerome.oufella@...oirfairelinux.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel <kernel@...oirfairelinux.com>,
	Chris Healy <cphealy@...il.com>,
	Wilson Kok <wkok@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/9] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add support for VTU ops

On 06/02/2015 11:53 PM, Scott Feldman wrote:
> I'm talking about bridging tagged traffic.  E.g.:
>
> ip link add name br0 type bridge
> ip link add name br1 type bridge
>
> ip link set dev sw1p1 master br0
> ip link set dev sw1p2 master br0
> ip link set dev sw1p3 master br1
> ip link set dev sw1p4 master br1
>
> bridge vlan add vid 100 dev sw1p1
> bridge vlan add vid 100 dev sw1p2
> bridge vlan add vid 100 dev sw1p3
> bridge vlan add vid 100 dev sw1p4
>
> Now the ports are trunking vlan 100 and the bridge/device see tagged
> traffic.  If the device used floods vlan 100 pkt to all ports in vlan
> 100, it'll flood to a port outside the bridge.  Oops!  For the device
> I'm using (rocker w/ OF-DPA) the bridging table matches on vlan ID and
> mac_dst.  There is no prevision to isolate vlans per bridge.
>
> How do you solve the above case with your hardware?

Ah, understood, thanks for clarifying.

Right now, we only support this case with vconfig-style vlans.  I don't 
see any conceptual reason it couldn't be supported in the vlan-aware 
bridge model as well.  The HW configuration would be essentially 
identical to the equivalent vconfig-style config.
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