From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, idosch@nvidia.com, davem@davemloft.net,
edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org,
bridge@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 01/12] net: bridge: introduce a bridge destination type
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2026 13:18:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261002131848.59bf5a96@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b41da7fb-0ef6-46c0-a174-cd7a7c4448ca@blackwall.org>
On Fri, 2 Oct 2026 23:09:56 +0300 Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> On 02/10/2026 22:45, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:14:00 +0300 Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> >> Add an opaque destination type and helpers for representing bridge port
> >> destinations. Using a separate structure makes raw pointer assignments and
> >> comparisons fail at build time while marking its value member __private
> >> makes sparse warn about accesses that bypass the helpers.
> >
> > First time I'm seeing the __private thing. FTR feels quite foreign to C.
> > __bitwise works very nicely for the same thing 🤷️
>
> I don't mind switching to __bitwise, no preference here. I saw __private initially
> in the console code. It seems to be more restrictive (__bitwise allows direct member
> copies and comparisons, __private warns about those), but if __bitwise is preferred
> I can send a follow-up.
It's alright, mostly flagging for future reference.
And I was curious how you chose it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-02 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-30 7:13 [PATCH net-next 00/12] net: bridge: vlan: optimize standard fdb fwding path Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-09-30 7:14 ` [PATCH net-next 01/12] net: bridge: introduce a bridge destination type Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-10-01 7:24 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-10-02 19:45 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-10-02 20:09 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-10-02 20:18 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2026-09-30 7:14 ` [PATCH net-next 02/12] net: bridge: use net_bridge_dst for fdb destinations Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-09-30 7:14 ` [PATCH net-next 03/12] net: bridge: add VLAN support to bridge destinations Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-10-01 11:59 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-01 12:03 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-09-30 7:14 ` [PATCH net-next 04/12] net: bridge: vlan: return VLAN entries from ingress helpers Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-09-30 7:14 ` [PATCH net-next 05/12] net: bridge: fdb: pass VLAN entries to learning updates Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-09-30 7:14 ` [PATCH net-next 06/12] net: bridge: fdb: consolidate port-VLAN cleanup Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-10-01 11:59 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-01 12:05 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-09-30 7:14 ` [PATCH net-next 07/12] net: bridge: vlan: split unpublishing from deletion Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-09-30 7:14 ` [PATCH net-next 08/12] net: bridge: vlan: quiesce readers before freeing port VLANs Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-10-01 7:28 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-10-01 11:59 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-01 12:07 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-10-02 19:50 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-10-02 19:59 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-09-30 7:14 ` [PATCH net-next 09/12] net: bridge: fdb: factor out existing entry updates Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-09-30 7:14 ` [PATCH net-next 10/12] net: bridge: fdb: cache port VLANs in learned entries Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-09-30 7:14 ` [PATCH net-next 11/12] net: bridge: fdb: cache VLAN destinations in configured entries Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-10-01 7:36 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-09-30 7:14 ` [PATCH net-next 12/12] net: bridge: fdb: avoid VLAN lookups in unicast forwarding Nikolay Aleksandrov
2026-10-02 20:00 ` [PATCH net-next 00/12] net: bridge: vlan: optimize standard fdb fwding path patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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