Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/5] net: bridge: add dynamic flag to switchdev notifier

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On 2023-01-18 00:08, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 07:57:10PM +0100, Hans J. Schultz wrote:
To be able to add dynamic FDB entries to drivers from userspace, the
dynamic flag must be added when sending RTM_NEWNEIGH events down.

Signed-off-by: Hans J. Schultz <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/net/switchdev.h   | 1 +
 net/bridge/br_switchdev.c | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/net/switchdev.h b/include/net/switchdev.h
index ca0312b78294..aaf918d4ba67 100644
--- a/include/net/switchdev.h
+++ b/include/net/switchdev.h
@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ struct switchdev_notifier_fdb_info {
 	u8 added_by_user:1,
 	   is_local:1,
 	   locked:1,
+	   is_dyn:1,
 	   offloaded:1;
 };

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c b/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c
index 7eb6fd5bb917..60c05a00a1df 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ static void br_switchdev_fdb_populate(struct net_bridge *br,
 	item->added_by_user = test_bit(BR_FDB_ADDED_BY_USER, &fdb->flags);
 	item->offloaded = test_bit(BR_FDB_OFFLOADED, &fdb->flags);
 	item->is_local = test_bit(BR_FDB_LOCAL, &fdb->flags);
+	item->is_dyn = !test_bit(BR_FDB_STATIC, &fdb->flags);

Why reverse logic? Why not just name this "is_static" and leave any
further interpretations up to the consumer?


My reasoning for this is that the common case is to have static entries, thus is_dyn=false, so whenever someone uses a switchdev_notifier_fdb_info struct the common case does not need to be entered. Otherwise it might also break something when someone uses this struct and if it was 'is_static' and they forget to code is_static=true they will get dynamic entries without wanting it and it can be hard to find such an error.

 	item->locked = false;
 	item->info.dev = (!p || item->is_local) ? br->dev : p->dev;
 	item->info.ctx = ctx;
--
2.34.1




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