Hans Schultz
2023-Mar-30 12:59 UTC
[Bridge] [PATCH v2 net-next 2/6] net: dsa: propagate flags down towards drivers
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 15:43, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv at gmail.com> wrote:> On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 09:45:26PM +0200, Hans Schultz wrote: >> So the solution would be to not let the DSA layer send the >> SWITCHDEV_FDB_OFFLOADED event in the case when the new dynamic flag is >> set? > > I have never said that.No, I was just thinking of a solution based on your previous comment that dynamic fdb entries with the offloaded flag set should not be aged out by the bridge as they are now.
Vladimir Oltean
2023-Mar-30 13:09 UTC
[Bridge] [PATCH v2 net-next 2/6] net: dsa: propagate flags down towards drivers
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 02:59:04PM +0200, Hans Schultz wrote:> On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 15:43, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 09:45:26PM +0200, Hans Schultz wrote: > >> So the solution would be to not let the DSA layer send the > >> SWITCHDEV_FDB_OFFLOADED event in the case when the new dynamic flag is > >> set? > > > > I have never said that. > > No, I was just thinking of a solution based on your previous comment > that dynamic fdb entries with the offloaded flag set should not be aged > out by the bridge as they are now.If you were a user of those other drivers, and you ran the command: "bridge fdb add ... master dynamic" would you be ok with the behavior: "I don't have dynamic FDB entries, but here's a static one for you"?
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