netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: avoid some redundant VTU operations

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Date:   Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:43:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vivien.didelot@...il.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rasmus.villemoes@...vas.dk,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: avoid some redundant
 VTU operations

From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>
Date: Thu,  1 Aug 2019 14:36:32 -0400

> The mv88e6xxx driver currently uses a mv88e6xxx_vtu_get wrapper to get a
> single entry and uses a boolean to eventually initialize a fresh one.
> 
> However the fresh entry is only needed in one place and mv88e6xxx_vtu_getnext
> is simple enough to call it directly. Doing so makes the code easier to read,
> especially for the return code expected by switchdev to honor software VLANs.
> 
> In addition to not loading the VTU again when an entry is already correctly
> programmed, this also allows to avoid programming the broadcast entries
> again when updating a port's membership, from e.g. tagged to untagged.
> 
> This patch series removes the mv88e6xxx_vtu_get wrapper in favor of direct
> calls to mv88e6xxx_vtu_getnext, and also renames the _mv88e6xxx_port_vlan_add
> and _mv88e6xxx_port_vlan_del helpers using an old underscore prefix convention.
> 
> In case the port's membership is already correctly programmed in hardware,
> the following debug message may be printed:
> 
>     [  745.989884] mv88e6085 2188000.ethernet-1:00: p4: already a member of VLAN 42

Series applied, thanks Vivien.