Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/5] net: dsa: add cross-chip VLAN support

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Jun 08 2017 - 11:44:15 EST


From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 18:12:12 -0400

> The current code in DSA does not support cross-chip VLAN. This means
> that in a multi-chip environment such as this one (similar to ZII Rev B)
...
> adding a VLAN to p9 won't be enough to reach the CPU, until at least one
> port of sw0 and sw1 join the VLAN as well and become aware of the VID.
>
> This patchset makes the DSA core program the VLAN on the CPU and DSA
> links itself, which brings seamlessly cross-chip VLAN support to DSA.
>
> With this series applied*, the hardware VLAN tables of a 3-switch setup
> look like this after adding a VLAN to only one port of the end switch:
...
> Completely removing a VLAN entry (which is currently the responsibility
> of drivers anyway) is not supported yet since it requires some caching.
>
> (*) the output is shown from this out-of-tree debugfs patch:
> https://github.com/vivien/linux/commit/7b61a684b9d6b6a499135a587c7f62a1fddceb8b.patch
>
> Changes in v2:
> - canonical incrementation (port++ instead of ++port)
> - check CPU and DSA ports before purging a VLAN
> - add Reviewed-by tags

Series applied, thanks Vivien.