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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
	Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Bridge port isolation offload
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 02:43:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9a61559-e7f7-86e9-6ac2-c988255db5f0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALW65jbotyW0MSOd-bd1TH_mkiBWhhRCQ29jgn+d12rXdj2pZA@mail.gmail.com>



On 8/9/2021 9:40 PM, DENG Qingfang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Bridge port isolation flag (BR_ISOLATED) was added in commit
> 7d850abd5f4e. But switchdev does not offload it currently.
> It should be easy to implement in drivers, just like bridge offload
> but prevent isolated ports to communicate with each other.
> 
> Your thoughts?

It maps well on Broadcom switches but there was not a known use case 
AFAICT that warranted mapping this flag to program the switch hardware 
accordingly.
-- 
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-10  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-10  4:40 Bridge port isolation offload DENG Qingfang
2021-08-10  9:43 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2021-08-10 10:42 ` Vladimir Oltean

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