Re: [PATCH net-next 5/8] bridge: Add SWITCHDEV_FDB_FLUSH_TO_BRIDGE notifier

David Miller
2020-09-14T21:38:35Z

From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:23:48 +0200

> From: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
>
> so the switchdev can notifiy the bridge to flush non-permanent fdb entries
> for this port. This is useful whenever the hardware fdb of the switchdev
> is reset, but the netdev and the bridgeport are not deleted.
>
> Note that this has the same effect as the IFLA_BRPORT_FLUSH attribute.
>
> CC: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
> CC: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
> CC: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>
> CC: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>

This still needs review by bridge experts.

Thank you.