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Message-ID: <20220410200657.cwx7xy3t6jycqqrn@skbuf>
Date:   Sun, 10 Apr 2022 23:06:57 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
Cc:     Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: offload BR_HAIRPIN_MODE,
 BR_ISOLATED, BR_MULTICAST_TO_UNICAST

On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 04:42:27PM +0300, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
> Add BR_HAIRPIN_MODE, BR_ISOLATED and BR_MULTICAST_TO_UNICAST port flags to
> BR_PORT_FLAGS_HW_OFFLOAD so that switchdev drivers which have an offloaded
> data plane have a chance to reject these bridge port flags if they don't
> support them yet.
> 
> It makes the code path go through the
> SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_PRE_BRIDGE_FLAGS driver handlers, which return
> -EINVAL for everything they don't recognize.
> 
> For drivers that don't catch SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_PRE_BRIDGE_FLAGS at
> all, switchdev will return -EOPNOTSUPP for those which is then ignored, but
> those are in the minority.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>

> Let me know if this is netdev/net material instead.

The thing with targeting this against "net" is that we've seen the
introduction of BR_PORT_LOCKED fairly recently which has tainted the
BR_PORT_FLAGS_HW_OFFLOAD macro. So backporting would conflict very
quickly down the path. Sure that isn't a decisive problem, but I don't
think it's worth the extra trouble of preparing special patches for the
"stable" trees, and having those diverge from the current master.

> 
> Commit log is heavily quoted from Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>.
> 
> Arınç
> ---
>  net/bridge/br_switchdev.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c b/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c
> index 8cc44c367231..81400e0b26ac 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c
> @@ -72,7 +72,8 @@ bool nbp_switchdev_allowed_egress(const struct net_bridge_port *p,
>  
>  /* Flags that can be offloaded to hardware */
>  #define BR_PORT_FLAGS_HW_OFFLOAD (BR_LEARNING | BR_FLOOD | \
> -				  BR_MCAST_FLOOD | BR_BCAST_FLOOD | BR_PORT_LOCKED)
> +				  BR_MCAST_FLOOD | BR_BCAST_FLOOD | BR_PORT_LOCKED | \
> +				  BR_HAIRPIN_MODE | BR_ISOLATED | BR_MULTICAST_TO_UNICAST)
>  
>  int br_switchdev_set_port_flag(struct net_bridge_port *p,
>  			       unsigned long flags,
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>