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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>
To: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall•org>
Cc: vyasevic@redhat•com, bridge@lists•linux-foundation.org,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, wkok@cumulusnetworks•com,
	davem@davemloft•net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] bridge: vlan: allow to suppress local mac install for all vlans
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:56:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150825175627.66ca9f30@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1440549295-3979-1-git-send-email-razor@blackwall.org>

On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:34:55 -0700
Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall•org> wrote:

> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks•com>
> 
> This patch adds a new knob that, when enabled, allows to suppress the
> installation of local fdb entries in newly created vlans. This could
> pose a big scalability issue if we have a large number of ports and a
> large number of vlans, e.g. in a 48 port device with 2000 vlans these
> entries easily go up to 96000.
> Note that packets for these macs are still received properly because they
> are added in vlan 0 as "own" macs and referenced when fdb lookup by vlan
> results in a miss.
> Also note that vlan membership of ingress port and the bridge device
> as egress are still being correctly enforced.
> 
> The default (0/off) is keeping the current behaviour.
> 
> Based on a patch by Wilson Kok (wkok@cumulusnetworks•com).


This is getting messy, but then again the bridge seems to have become
a ghetto for a long time. I would rather see the lookup code fixed so
that the fdb was correct.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-26  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-26  0:34 [PATCH net-next v2] bridge: vlan: allow to suppress local mac install for all vlans Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-26  0:56 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-08-26  5:42   ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-26  0:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-08-26  2:42 ` David Miller
2015-08-26  5:28   ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-26  6:06     ` David Miller
2015-08-26 11:33       ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-27  4:57         ` roopa
2015-08-27 21:02           ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-27 23:47             ` Vlad Yasevich
2015-08-28  2:17               ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-28 12:31                 ` Vlad Yasevich
2015-08-28 15:26                   ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-29  1:11                     ` Vlad Yasevich
2015-09-13 13:22                       ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-26  6:10     ` B Viswanath
2015-08-26 12:52       ` Vlad Yasevich

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