Linux Ethernet Bridging - Oct 2015 - [Bridge] [PATCH net-next 4/4] bridge: vlan: combine (br|nbp)_vlan_flush into one

Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 02:41:09PM IDT, razor at blackwall.org
wrote:
>From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay at cumulusnetworks.com>
>
>As Ido Schimmel pointed out the vlan_vid_del() loop in nbp_vlan_flush is
>unnecessary (and is actually a remnant of the old vlan code) so we can
>remove it and combine both br/nbp vlan_flush functions into one.
Just a small note to Scott and Vivien:

One of the side effects of Nik's recent patchsets is that when VLANs are
flushed on a port the deletion is propagated to the driver via
switchdev ops, as __vlan_vid_del is called.

Therefore there is no need to do internal bookkeeping and remove VLANs
yourself when port is removed from bridge.
>
>Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay at cumulusnetworks.com>

Hi,

On Oct. Monday 12 (42) 08:51 PM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 02:41:09PM IDT, razor at blackwall.org wrote:
> >From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay at cumulusnetworks.com>
> >
> >As Ido Schimmel pointed out the vlan_vid_del() loop in nbp_vlan_flush
is
> >unnecessary (and is actually a remnant of the old vlan code) so we can
> >remove it and combine both br/nbp vlan_flush functions into one.
> Just a small note to Scott and Vivien:
> 
> One of the side effects of Nik's recent patchsets is that when VLANs
are
> flushed on a port the deletion is propagated to the driver via
> switchdev ops, as __vlan_vid_del is called.
> 
> Therefore there is no need to do internal bookkeeping and remove VLANs
> yourself when port is removed from bridge.
I was thinking about caching VLAN entries in the mv88e6xxx driver to
improve look up on VLAN and FDB operations, but it's a bit prematurate.

But when VLAN are flushed, we still need to remove them from the
hardware table, right?

Flushing is interesting though, most hardware have flush operations and
it would be interesting to have switchdev fdb_flush and vlan_flush ops.

Thanks!
-v