netdev - Re: [RFC/RFT v1] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: drop generic vlan rx offload, only use DSA untagging

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Date:   Sun, 16 Apr 2023 12:52:31 +0300
From:   Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
To:     Frank Wunderlich <linux@...web.de>, Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>,
        Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>,
        Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
Cc:     John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Mark Lee <Mark-MC.Lee@...iatek.com>,
        Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
        Frank Wunderlich <frank-w@...lic-files.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT v1] net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: drop generic vlan rx
 offload, only use DSA untagging

On 16.04.2023 12:10, Frank Wunderlich wrote:
> From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
> 
> Through testing I found out that hardware vlan rx offload support seems to
> have some hardware issues. At least when using multiple MACs and when receiving
> tagged packets on the secondary MAC, the hardware can sometimes start to emit
> wrong tags on the first MAC as well.
> 
> In order to avoid such issues, drop the feature configuration and use the
> offload feature only for DSA hardware untagging on MT7621/MT7622 devices which
> only use one MAC.

MT7621 devices most certainly use both MACs.

> 
> Tested-by: Frank Wunderlich <frank-w@...lic-files.de>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>
> Signed-off-by: Frank Wunderlich <frank-w@...lic-files.de>
> ---
> used felix Patch as base and ported up to 6.3-rc6 which seems to get lost
> and the original bug is not handled again.
> 
> it reverts changes from vladimirs patch
> 
> 1a3245fe0cf8 net: ethernet: mtk_eth_soc: fix DSA TX tag hwaccel for switch port 0

Do I understand correctly that this is considered being reverted because 
the feature it fixes is being removed?

Arınç