Re: [PATCH net-next v2] bridge: vlan: allow to suppress local mac install for all vlans

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> On Aug 25, 2015, at 11:06 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 22:28:16 -0700
> 
>> Certainly, that should be done and I will look into it, but the
>> essence of this patch is a bit different. The problem here is not
>> the size of the fdb entries, it’s more the number of them - having
>> 96000 entries (even if they were 1 byte ones) is just way too much
>> especially when the fdb hash size is small and static. We could work
>> on making it dynamic though, but still these type of local entries
>> per vlan per port can easily be avoided with this option.
> 
> 96000 bits can be stored in 12k.  Get where I'm going with this?
> 
> Look at the problem sideways.

Oh okay, I misunderstood your previous comment. I’ll look into that.

Thanks,
 Nik



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