netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/9] DSA with VLAN filtering and offloading masters

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Date:   Sun, 20 Sep 2020 19:02:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vladimir.oltean@....com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        vivien.didelot@...il.com, idosch@...sch.org, jiri@...nulli.us,
        kurt.kanzenbach@...utronix.de, kuba@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/9] DSA with VLAN filtering and offloading
 masters

From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 03:10:22 +0300

> This series attempts to make DSA VLANs work in the presence of a master
> interface that is:
> - filtering, so it drops VLANs that aren't explicitly added to its
>   filter list
> - offloading, so the old assumptions in the tagging code about there
>   being a VLAN tag in the skb are not necessarily true anymore.
> 
> For more context:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200910150738.mwhh2i6j2qgacqev@skbuf/
> 
> This probably marks the beginning of a series of patches in which DSA
> starts paying much more attention to its upper interfaces, not only for
> VLAN purposes but also for address filtering and for management of the
> CPU flooding domain. There was a comment from Florian on whether we
> could factor some of the mlxsw logic into some common functionality, but
> it doesn't look so. This seems bound to be open-coded, but frankly there
> isn't a lot to it.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> Applied Florian's cosmetic suggestion in patch 4/9.

Series applied, thanks.