Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] bridge: Add a limit on FDB entries

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On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 02:04:30PM +0300, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> That was one of the questions actually. More that I'm thinking about this, the more
> I want to break it apart by type because we discussed being able to specify a flag
> mask for the limit (all, dynamic, dynamic+static etc). If we embed these stats into a
> bridge fdb count attribute, it can be easily extended later if anything new comes along.
> If switchdev doesn't support some of these global limit configs, we can pass the option
> and it can deny setting it later. I think this should be more than enough as a first step.

Ok, and by "type" you actually mean the impossibly hard to understand
neighbor discovery states used by the bridge UAPI? Like having
(overlapping) limits per NUD_REACHABLE, NUD_NOARP etc flags set in
ndm->ndm_state? Or how should the UAPI look like?



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