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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Cc: "Marek Behún" <marek.behun@nic.cz>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Vivien Didelot" <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
	"Florian Fainelli" <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	"David Ahern" <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	"Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 0/3] Multi-CPU DSA support
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 17:56:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190824155636.GD8251@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+h21hpBKnueT0QrVDL=Hhcp9X0rnaPW8omxiegq4TkcQ18EVQ@mail.gmail.com>

> Will DSA assume that all CPU ports are equal in terms of tagging
> protocol abilities? There are switches where one of the CPU ports can
> do tagging and the other can't.

Hi Vladimir

Given the current definition of what a CPU port is, we have to assume
the port is using tags. Frames have to be directed out a specific
egress port, otherwise things like BPDU, PTP will break. You cannot
rely on MAC address learning.

> Is the static assignment between slave and CPU ports going to be the
> only use case? What about link aggregation? Flow steering perhaps?
> And like Andrew pointed out, how do you handle the receive case? What
> happens to flooded frames, will the switch send them to both CPU
> interfaces, and get received twice in Linux? How do you prevent that?

I expect bad things will happen if frames are flooded to multiple CPU
ports. For this to work, the whole switch design needs to support
multiple CPU ports. I doubt this will work on any old switch.

Having a host interface connected to a user port of the switch is a
completely different uses case, and not what this patchset is about.

	   Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-08-24 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-24  2:42 [PATCH RFC net-next 0/3] Multi-CPU DSA support Marek Behún
2019-08-24  2:42 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 1/3] net: dsa: allow for multiple CPU ports Marek Behún
2019-08-24 15:43   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-08-24 17:41     ` Marek Behun
2019-08-24  2:42 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 2/3] net: add ndo for setting the iflink property Marek Behún
2019-08-24  2:42 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 3/3] net: dsa: implement ndo_set_netlink for chaning port's CPU port Marek Behún
2019-08-24 15:47   ` Andrew Lunn
2019-08-24  2:42 ` [PATCH RFC iproute2-next] iplink: allow to change iplink value Marek Behún
2019-08-24 15:24 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 0/3] Multi-CPU DSA support Andrew Lunn
2019-08-24 17:45   ` Marek Behun
2019-08-24 17:54     ` Andrew Lunn
2019-08-25  4:19   ` Marek Behun
2019-08-24 15:40 ` Vladimir Oltean
2019-08-24 15:44   ` Vladimir Oltean
2019-08-24 17:55     ` Marek Behun
2019-08-24 15:56   ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2019-08-24 17:58     ` Marek Behun
2019-08-24 20:04 ` Florian Fainelli
2019-08-24 21:01   ` Marek Behun
2019-08-25  4:08     ` Marek Behun
2019-08-25  7:13   ` Marek Behun
2019-08-25 15:00     ` Florian Fainelli
2021-04-10 13:34 Ansuel Smith
2021-04-11 18:01 ` Marek Behun
2021-04-11 18:08   ` Ansuel Smith
2021-04-11 18:39   ` Andrew Lunn
2021-04-12  2:07     ` Florian Fainelli
2021-04-12  4:53     ` Ansuel Smith
2021-04-11 18:50   ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-04-11 23:53     ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-04-12  2:10       ` Florian Fainelli
2021-04-12  5:04     ` Ansuel Smith
2021-04-12 12:46     ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-12 14:35       ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-04-12 21:06         ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-12 19:30       ` Marek Behun
2021-04-12 21:22         ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-12 21:34           ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-04-12 21:49             ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-12 21:56               ` Marek Behun
2021-04-12 22:06               ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-04-12 22:26                 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-12 22:48                   ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-04-12 23:04                     ` Marek Behun
2021-04-12 21:50           ` Marek Behun
2021-04-12 22:05             ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-12 22:55               ` Marek Behun
2021-04-12 23:09                 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-12 23:13                   ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-12 23:54                     ` Marek Behun
2021-04-13  0:27                       ` Marek Behun
2021-04-13  0:31                         ` Marek Behun
2021-04-13 14:46                         ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-13 15:14                           ` Marek Behun
2021-04-13 18:16                             ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-14 15:14                               ` Marek Behun
2021-04-14 18:39                                 ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-14 23:39                                   ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-04-15  9:20                                     ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-13 14:40                       ` Tobias Waldekranz
2021-04-12 15:00     ` DENG Qingfang
2021-04-12 16:32       ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-04-12 22:04         ` Marek Behun
2021-04-12 22:17           ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-04-12 22:47             ` Marek Behun

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