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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: roopa <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, sfeldma@gmail.com, jiri@resnulli.us,
	ronen.arad@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Wilson Kok <wkok@cumulusnetworks.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC v2] switchdev: bridge: drop hardware forwarded packets
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 23:04:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150320220454.GA31769@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <550C8FBD.2000903@gmail.com>

> >  In-kernel bridge driver is proven very useful for us to run stp,
> >or recently igmp reports (dont know the details here) etc in software.
> >I wonder how you handle these. If you don't use the in-kernel bridge
> >driver, I suspect you down the lane you will end-up having to duplicate a
> >lot of things that bridge driver already does in your switch driver.
> 
> I think that code is in need of some serious love before it is usable. I
> actually don't know who is using STP anymore if anyone.

We are using STP for the DSA switches. It is a good minimum to start
with, for these little switches with only a small number of ports, and
use in home WiFi routers etc.

    Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-20 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-20 16:58 [PATCH net-next RFC v2] switchdev: bridge: drop hardware forwarded packets roopa
2015-03-20 17:11 ` John Fastabend
2015-03-20 18:13   ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-20 18:30     ` John Fastabend
2015-03-20 22:06     ` roopa
2015-03-20 22:37       ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-20 23:30         ` roopa
2015-03-21  0:26           ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-21  5:53             ` roopa
2015-03-20 21:03   ` roopa
2015-03-20 21:23     ` John Fastabend
2015-03-20 22:04       ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2015-03-20 23:12       ` roopa
2015-03-20 18:03 ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-20 21:20   ` roopa
2015-03-20 20:36 ` David Miller
2015-03-20 21:36   ` roopa
2015-03-20 22:09     ` Andrew Lunn
2015-03-20 23:43       ` Florian Fainelli
2015-03-23  0:22       ` Guenter Roeck
2015-03-23  1:33         ` John Fastabend
2015-03-23  2:57           ` Guenter Roeck
2015-03-23  3:18             ` John Fastabend
2015-03-23  3:33               ` Guenter Roeck
2015-03-23 17:12                 ` roopa
2015-03-24  5:59                   ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-24 13:13                     ` Guenter Roeck
2015-03-24 18:08                       ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-24 14:29                     ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-24 16:01                       ` Guenter Roeck
2015-03-24 17:45                         ` roopa
2015-03-24 17:58                           ` Guenter Roeck
2015-03-24 18:14                             ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-25  3:10                               ` Guenter Roeck
2015-03-25  3:46                               ` Florian Fainelli
2015-03-25  5:06                                 ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-25 17:01                                   ` roopa
2015-03-26  7:44                                     ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-26  8:20                                       ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-26 14:28                                         ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-26 14:49                                           ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-27  1:08                                             ` Simon Horman
2015-03-27  6:02                                               ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-27  6:43                                             ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-27  7:01                                               ` Jiri Pirko
2015-03-27 23:19                                                 ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-30 14:06                                       ` roopa
2015-03-24 18:48                             ` David Christensen
2015-03-24 17:58                         ` Scott Feldman
2015-03-23 17:10           ` roopa
2015-03-23 14:00         ` roopa

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