Re: [PATCH net v2 0/5] net: dsa: b53: Various ARL fixes

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Apr 22 2020 - 15:53:43 EST


From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 20:26:50 -0700

> Hi David, Andrew, Vivien, Jakub,
>
> This patch series fixes a number of short comings in the existing b53
> driver ARL management logic in particular:
>
> - we were not looking up the {MAC,VID} tuples against their VID, despite
> having VLANs enabled
>
> - the MDB entries (multicast) would lose their validity as soon as a
> single port in the vector would leave the entry
>
> - the ARL was currently under utilized because we would always place new
> entries in bin index #1, instead of using all possible bins available,
> thus reducing the ARL effective size by 50% or 75% depending on the
> switch generation
>
> - it was possible to overwrite the ARL entries because no proper space
> verification was done
>
> This patch series addresses all of these issues.
>
> Changes in v2:
> - added a new patch to correctly flip invidual VLAN learning vs. shared
> VLAN learning depending on the global VLAN state
>
> - added Andrew's R-b tags for patches which did not change
>
> - corrected some verbosity and minor issues in patch #4 to match caller
> expectations, also avoid a variable length DECLARE_BITMAP() call

Series applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.