linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 net-next 1/4] net: bridge: add fdb flag to extent locked port feature

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Date:   Tue, 31 May 2022 17:23:28 +0300
From:   Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>
To:     Hans Schultz <schultz.hans@...il.com>
Cc:     Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
        kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 net-next 1/4] net: bridge: add fdb flag to extent
 locked port feature

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?