Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 0/3] Multi-CPU DSA support

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Mon Apr 12 2021 - 12:48:28 EST


On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:00:45PM +0800, DENG Qingfang wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 09:50:17PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> >
> > So I'd be tempted to say 'tough luck' if all your ports are not up, and
> > the ones that are are assigned statically to the same CPU port. It's a
> > compromise between flexibility and simplicity, and I would go for
> > simplicity here. That's the most you can achieve with static assignment,
> > just put the CPU ports in a LAG if you want better dynamic load balancing
> > (for details read on below).
> >
>
> Many switches such as mv88e6xxx only support MAC DA/SA load balancing,
> which make it not ideal in router application (Router WAN <--> ISP BRAS
> traffic will always have the same DA/SA and thus use only one port).

Is this supposed to make a difference? Choose a better switch vendor!