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From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat•com>
Cc: davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	ramanb@cumulusnetworks•com, stephen@networkplumber•org,
	pshelar@ovn•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] vxlan: don't flush static fdb entries on admin down
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:31:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58862FDE.6090008@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170123095555.0778abb6@griffin>

On 1/23/17, 12:55 AM, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 23:43:18 -0800, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
>> This patch skips flushing static fdb entries in
>> ndo_stop, but flushes all fdb entries during vxlan
>> device delete. This is consistent with the bridge
>> driver fdb
> This makes sense but isn't this a uAPI change? Do you know whether
> there are users relying on the current behavior?
>
yeah, i have debated about this also. I am sitting on a stash of such patches
which are borderline bug fixes but been out there long enough that people might care.

I leaned towards making it the default because,
- I am assuming not many people use static entries
- and people will not be very unhappy with this change....because it does not delete something
 they had...just retains them.
- Per device flag seems like an overkill here

Also, i think some such changes were done to the bridge driver too after it was out.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-23 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-21  7:43 [PATCH net-next 0/2] vxlan: misc fdb fixes Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-21  7:43 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] vxlan: don't flush static fdb entries on admin down Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-23  8:55   ` Jiri Benc
2017-01-23 16:31     ` Roopa Prabhu [this message]
2017-01-23 21:07   ` David Miller
2017-01-24  0:14     ` Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-21  7:43 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] vxlan: do not age static remote mac entries Roopa Prabhu

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