Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 2/5] net: dsa: propagate flags down towards drivers

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On 2023-01-18 00:17, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 07:57:11PM +0100, Hans J. Schultz wrote:
Dynamic FDB flag needs to be propagated through the DSA layer to be
added to drivers.
Use a u16 for fdb flags for future use, so that other flags can also be
sent the same way without having to change function interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Hans J. Schultz <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
@@ -3364,6 +3368,7 @@ static int dsa_slave_fdb_event(struct net_device *dev,
 	struct dsa_port *dp = dsa_slave_to_port(dev);
 	bool host_addr = fdb_info->is_local;
 	struct dsa_switch *ds = dp->ds;
+	u16 fdb_flags = 0;

 	if (ctx && ctx != dp)
 		return 0;
@@ -3410,6 +3415,9 @@ static int dsa_slave_fdb_event(struct net_device *dev,
 		   orig_dev->name, fdb_info->addr, fdb_info->vid,
 		   host_addr ? " as host address" : "");

+	if (fdb_info->is_dyn)
+		fdb_flags |= DSA_FDB_FLAG_DYNAMIC;
+

Hmm, I don't think this is going to work with the assisted_learning_on_cpu_port
feature ("if (switchdev_fdb_is_dynamically_learned(fdb_info))"). The
reason being
that a "dynamically learned" FDB entry (defined as this):

static inline bool
switchdev_fdb_is_dynamically_learned(const struct
switchdev_notifier_fdb_info *fdb_info)
{
	return !fdb_info->added_by_user && !fdb_info->is_local;
}

is also dynamic in the DSA_FDB_FLAG_DYNAMIC sense. But we install a
static FDB entry for it on the CPU port.

And in your follow-up patch 3/5, you make all drivers except mv88e6xxx
ignore all DSA_FDB_FLAG_DYNAMIC entries (including the ones snooped from
address learning on software interfaces). So this breaks those drivers
which don't implement DSA_FDB_FLAG_DYNAMIC but do set
ds->assisted_learning_on_cpu_port
to true.

I am not sure I understand you entirely.
From my standpoint I see it as so: that until now any fdb entry coming to port_fdb_add() (or port_fdb_del()) are seen as static entries. And this changes nothing with respect to those static entries as how drivers handle them. When the new dynamic flag is true, all drivers will ignore it in patch #3, so basically nothing will change by that. Then in patch #5 the dynamic flag is handled by the mv88e6xxx driver.

I don't know the assisted_learning_on_cpu_port feature you mention, but there has still not been anything but static entries going towards port_fdb_add() yet...


I think you also want to look at the added_by_user flag to disambiguate
between a dynamic FDB entry added from learning (which it's ok to
offload as static, because software ageing will remove it) and one added
by the user.

 	INIT_WORK(&switchdev_work->work, dsa_slave_switchdev_event_work);
 	switchdev_work->event = event;
 	switchdev_work->dev = dev;
@@ -3418,6 +3426,7 @@ static int dsa_slave_fdb_event(struct net_device *dev,
 	ether_addr_copy(switchdev_work->addr, fdb_info->addr);
 	switchdev_work->vid = fdb_info->vid;
 	switchdev_work->host_addr = host_addr;
+	switchdev_work->fdb_flags = fdb_flags;

 	dsa_schedule_work(&switchdev_work->work);




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