netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/6] bridge: add new attribute IFLA_BRIDGE_VLAN_RANGE

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Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2014 13:52:26 -0800
From:	Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
To:	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, shemminger@...tta.com,
	"vyasevic@...hat.com" <vyasevic@...hat.com>,
	Wilson Kok <wkok@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] bridge: add new attribute IFLA_BRIDGE_VLAN_RANGE_INFO
 to represent vlan range

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 1:05 PM,  <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
>
> This patch adds new bridge netlink attribute IFLA_BRIDGE_VLAN_RANGE_INFO
> to represent vlan range.
>
> Current IFLA_BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO attribute represents a single vlan and
> does not scale well when the port has large number of vlans.
>
> IFLA_BRIDGE_VLAN_RANGE_INFO is similar to IFLA_BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO but helps
> with packing consecutive vlans in a single attribute. Thus reducing the
> size of the netlink msg during adds and also during dumps.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wilson Kok <wkok@...ulusnetworks.com>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h |    7 +++++++
>  net/bridge/br_netlink.c        |    2 ++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h b/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
> index b03ee8f..d41a346 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h
> @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ enum {
>         IFLA_BRIDGE_FLAGS,
>         IFLA_BRIDGE_MODE,
>         IFLA_BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO,
> +       IFLA_BRIDGE_VLAN_RANGE_INFO,
>         __IFLA_BRIDGE_MAX,
>  };
>  #define IFLA_BRIDGE_MAX (__IFLA_BRIDGE_MAX - 1)
> @@ -131,6 +132,12 @@ struct bridge_vlan_info {
>         __u16 vid;
>  };
>
> +struct bridge_vlan_range_info {
> +       __u16 flags;
> +       __u16 vid;

vid_start or vid_begin to be consistent with vid_end?

> +       __u16 vid_end;
> +};
> +
>  /* Bridge multicast database attributes
>   * [MDBA_MDB] = {
>   *     [MDBA_MDB_ENTRY] = {
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
> index 75971b1..e7d1fc0 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
> @@ -223,6 +223,8 @@ static const struct nla_policy ifla_br_policy[IFLA_MAX+1] = {
>         [IFLA_BRIDGE_MODE]      = { .type = NLA_U16 },
>         [IFLA_BRIDGE_VLAN_INFO] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,
>                                     .len = sizeof(struct bridge_vlan_info), },
> +       [IFLA_BRIDGE_VLAN_RANGE_INFO] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,
> +                        .len = sizeof(struct bridge_vlan_range_info), },

ifla_br_policy isn't used anymore from patch 1/6, so no need to add this.

>  };
>
>  static int br_afspec(struct net_bridge *br,
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
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