netdev - Re: MT7530 bug, forward broadcast and unknown frames to the correct CPU port

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Message-ID: <d3a73d34-efd7-2f37-1362-9a2fe5a21592@arinc9.com>
Date:   Sat, 29 Apr 2023 22:52:12 +0300
From:   Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>, Greg Ungerer <gerg@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>,
        Richard van Schagen <richard@...terhints.com>,
        Richard van Schagen <vschagen@...com>,
        Frank Wunderlich <frank-w@...lic-files.de>,
        mithat.guner@...ont.com, erkin.bozoglu@...ont.com,
        bartel.eerdekens@...stell8.be, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MT7530 bug, forward broadcast and unknown frames to the correct
 CPU port

On 29.04.2023 21:56, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 09:39:41PM +0300, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
>> Are you fine with the preferred port patch now that I mentioned port 6
>> would be preferred for MT7531BE since it's got 2.5G whilst port 5 has
>> got 1G? Would you like to submit it or leave it to me to send the diff
>> above and this?
> 
> No, please tell me: what real life difference would it make to a user
> who doesn't care to analyze which CPU port is used?

They would get 2.5 Gbps download/upload bandwidth in total to the CPU, 
instead of 1 Gbps. 3 computers connected to 3 switch ports would each 
get 833 Mbps download/upload speed to/from the CPU instead of 333 Mbps.

Arınç