netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] bridge: vlan: allow to suppress local mac install for all vlans

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Message-ID: <CAN+pFwJKFeQJw_4mPEH5_WmHdBUn75FL+-Cq=YaR+FR-+cRfEw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:40:27 +0530
From:	B Viswanath <marichika4@...il.com>
To:	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"vyasevic@...hat.com" <vyasevic@...hat.com>,
	toshiaki.makita1@...il.com,
	"stephen@...workplumber.org" <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, wkok@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] bridge: vlan: allow to suppress local mac
 install for all vlans

>>
>> I'd rather we fix the essence of the scalability problem than add
>> more spaghetti code to the various bridge paths.
>>
>> Can we make the fdb entries smaller?
>>
>> Can we enhance how we store such local entries such that they live in
>> a compact datastructure?  Perhaps the FDB can consist of a very dense
>> lookup mechanism for local stuff sitting alongside the current table.
>
> Certainly, that should be done and I will look into it, but the essence of this patch
> is a bit different. The problem here is not the size of the fdb entries, it’s more the
> number of them - having 96000 entries (even if they were 1 byte ones) is just way
> too much especially when the fdb hash size is small and static. We could work on making
> it dynamic though, but still these type of local entries per vlan per port can easily be avoided
> with this option.
>

I was wondering if it is possible to assign a vlan bitmap for the FDB
entry, instead of replicating the entry for each vlan. ( I believe
Roopa has done something similar, but not so sure). This means that
the number of FDB entries remain static for any number of vlans.

I guess its more complicated than it sounds, but just wanted to know
if its feasible at all.

Thanks
Vissu

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