netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 10/15] net: bridge: switchdev object replay helpers for everybody

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Message-ID: <20210719081908.qnxw7gjetwkubxz3@skbuf>
Date:   Mon, 19 Jul 2021 11:19:08 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>,
        Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@...dekranz.com>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        Marek Behun <kabel@...ckhole.sk>,
        DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>,
        Vadym Kochan <vkochan@...vell.com>,
        Taras Chornyi <tchornyi@...vell.com>,
        Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>,
        Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@...rochip.com>,
        Steen Hegelund <Steen.Hegelund@...rochip.com>,
        UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com,
        Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 10/15] net: bridge: switchdev object replay
 helpers for everybody

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 12:44:29AM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Note that:
> (c) I do not expect a lot of functional change introduced for drivers in
>     this patch, because:
>     - nbp_vlan_init() is called _after_ netdev_master_upper_dev_link(),
>       so br_vlan_replay() should not do anything for the new drivers on
>       which we call it. The existing drivers where there was even a
>       slight possibility for there to exist a VLAN on a bridge port
>       before they join it are already guarded against this: mlxsw and
>       prestera deny joining LAG interfaces that are members of a bridge.
>     - br_fdb_replay() should now notify of local FDB entries, but I
>       patched all drivers except DSA to ignore these new entries in
>       commit 2c4eca3ef716 ("net: bridge: switchdev: include local flag
>       in FDB notifications"). Driver authors can lift this restriction
>       as they wish.
>     - br_mdb_replay() should now fix the issue described in commit
>       2c4eca3ef716 ("net: bridge: switchdev: include local flag in FDB
>       notifications") for all drivers, I don't see any downside.

I really meant commit 4f2673b3a2b6 ("net: bridge: add helper to replay
port and host-joined mdb entries"), sorry for the copy-pasta mistake.