netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: multicast: notify switchdev driver whenever MC processing gets disabled

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Date:   Mon, 14 Feb 2022 21:13:09 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Oleksandr Mazur <oleksandr.mazur@...ision.eu>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: multicast: notify switchdev driver
 whenever MC processing gets disabled

On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:14:26 +0200 Oleksandr Mazur wrote:
> Whenever bridge driver hits the max capacity of MDBs, it disables
> the MC processing (by setting corresponding bridge option), but never
> notifies switchdev about such change (the notifiers are called only upon
> explicit setting of this option, through the registered netlink interface).
> 
> This could lead to situation when Software MDB processing gets disabled,
> but this event never gets offloaded to the underlying Hardware.
> 
> Fix this by adding a notify message in such case.

Any comments on this one?

We have drivers offloading mdb so presumably this should have a Fixes
tag and go to net, right?