linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/7] net: dsa: mt7530: always trap frames to active CPU port on MT7530

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:31:03 +0200
From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To: arinc.unal@...nc9.com
Cc: Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>,
	Landen Chao <Landen.Chao@...iatek.com>,
	DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>,
	Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
	AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, mithat.guner@...ont.com,
	erkin.bozoglu@...ont.com,
	Bartel Eerdekens <bartel.eerdekens@...stell8.be>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/7] net: dsa: mt7530: always trap frames to
 active CPU port on MT7530

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 08:35:52AM +0300, Arınç ÜNAL via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
> 
> On the MT7530 switch, the CPU_PORT field indicates which CPU port to trap
> frames to, regardless of the affinity of the inbound user port.
> 
> When multiple CPU ports are in use, if the DSA conduit interface is down,
> trapped frames won't be passed to the conduit interface.
> 
> To make trapping frames work including this case, implement
> ds->ops->conduit_state_change() on this subdriver and set the CPU_PORT
> field to the numerically smallest CPU port whose conduit interface is up.
> Introduce the active_cpu_ports field to store the information of the active
> CPU ports. Correct the macros, CPU_PORT is bits 4 through 6 of the
> register.
> 
> Add a comment to explain frame trapping for this switch.
> 
> Currently, the driver doesn't support the use of multiple CPU ports so this
> is not necessarily a bug fix.
> 
> Suggested-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
> Suggested-by: Russell King (Oracle) <linux@...linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>