From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamal Hadi Salim Subject: Re: [RFC] bridge and friends: reduce TheLinuxWay(tm) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 06:42:37 -0400 Message-ID: <5261109D.5030501@mojatatu.com> References: <525C62D5.3090004@mojatatu.com> <20131014144156.6dc52a78@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> <525E9AB1.6090502@mojatatu.com> <525EC8AF.6000902@redhat.com> <525ED1AE.7050101@mojatatu.com> <1381948550.2045.136.camel@edumazet-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com> <525EE00A.20209@redhat.com> <525EE2AC.50002@mojatatu.com> <525EF4E7.1030003@mojatatu.com> <525EF570.3050105@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Stephen Hemminger , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: vyasevic@redhat.com, Eric Dumazet Return-path: Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com ([209.85.223.182]:61683 "EHLO mail-ie0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752476Ab3JRKms (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Oct 2013 06:42:48 -0400 Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id as1so6269826iec.13 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 03:42:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <525EF570.3050105@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/16/13 16:22, Vlad Yasevich wrote: > Yes, I know about that one. BRIDGE_FLAGS started the polution and then > we continued it with the other attributes.... > Understood - note the email has subject TheLinuxWay ;-> So i fear this one also falls under "it is already in the wild, cant do anything about it". BTW: the flooding and learning knobs are still not exposed to iproute2. In regards to a GET always being translated to DUMP forcing user space to filter: If neither you nor Stephen planning to take of it, I will because it is a scaling problem. Please let me know. cheers, jamal