From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>,
Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@bootlin.com>,
Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
Nadav Haklai <nadavh@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Save switch rules
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 15:24:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190128152456.212ae5ac@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1421a5d-5f92-bb86-b5cc-9fa19a1c8d9f@gmail.com>
Hi Florian,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote on Fri, 25 Jan 2019
10:37:38 -0800:
> Hi Miquel,
>
> On 1/25/19 1:55 AM, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> > The user might apply a specific switch configuration, with specific
> > forwarding rules, VLAN, bridges, etc.
> >
> > During suspend to RAM the switch power will be turned off and the
> > switch will lost its configuration. In an attempt to bring S2RAM
> > support to the mv88e6xxx DSA, let's first save these rules in a
> > per-chip list thanks to the mv88e6xxx_add/del_xxx_rule()
> > helpers. These helpers are then called from various callbacks:
> > * mv88e6xxx_port_fdb_add/del()
> > * mv88e6xxx_port_mdb_add/del()
> > * mv88e6xxx_port_vlan_add/del()
> > * mv88e6xxx_port_bridge_join/leave()
> > * mv88e6xxx_crosschip_bridge_join/leave()
> >
> > To avoid recursion problems when replaying the rules, the content of
> > the above *_add()/*_join() callbacks has been moved in separate
> > helpers with a '_' prefix. Hence, each callback just calls the
> > corresponding helper and the corresponding *_add_xxx_rule().
>
> None of this should be done in the driver IMHO, because this is
> presumably applicable to all switch devices that lose their state during
> suspend/resume, so at best, this should be moved to the core DSA layer,
> but doing this means that we should also have a well established
> contract between the DSA layer and individual switch drivers as far as
> quiescing/saving/restoring state goes.
>
> By moving things to the core we can also more tightly control what data
> structures get used to represent e.g.: VLANs, FDBs, MDBs etc and
> possibly push/utilize caching into the original subsystem. For instance
> VLAN/bridge already do maintain caches of VLANs, so if we could somehow
> expose those, we would not bloat the kernel's memory footprint by having
> an additional layer to maintain with identical information.
So you suggest to move the intelligence of FDBs/MDBs in net/dsa/port.c,
is this right?
I don't see where VLAN and bridge information are cached, can you point
me to the relevant locations?
What about cross-chip bridges? There is nothing about them in
net/dsa/port.c. The implementation I see in the mv88e6xxx driver
only touches the PVT but I don't get whether we should handle this
calls like regular bridge-join/leave events or not (maybe they are
cached with regular bridge events?).
Thanks,
Miquèl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-28 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-25 9:55 [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] mv88e6xxx DSA suspend to RAM support Miquel Raynal
2019-01-25 9:55 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Save switch rules Miquel Raynal
2019-01-25 18:37 ` Florian Fainelli
2019-01-28 14:24 ` Miquel Raynal [this message]
2019-01-28 14:44 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-01-28 15:57 ` Miquel Raynal
2019-01-28 17:42 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-01-29 9:01 ` Miquel Raynal
2019-01-29 14:51 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-01-29 15:46 ` Vivien Didelot
2019-01-30 9:46 ` Miquel Raynal
2019-01-30 14:54 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-01-31 0:46 ` Vivien Didelot
2019-02-01 11:01 ` Miquel Raynal
2019-02-01 14:08 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-02-01 14:43 ` Miquel Raynal
2019-01-25 9:55 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Add suspend to RAM support Miquel Raynal
2019-01-27 21:22 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] mv88e6xxx DSA " David Miller
2019-01-27 21:46 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-01-28 3:44 ` David Miller
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