From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BDBDC5DF63 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2019 16:01:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C36B2178F for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2019 16:01:16 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b="WMVrZM7I" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1732090AbfKFQBP (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Nov 2019 11:01:15 -0500 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch ([185.16.172.187]:51974 "EHLO vps0.lunn.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727074AbfKFQBP (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Nov 2019 11:01:15 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID: Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=14E8rBtiDQjr+xd3m9tbE7W5QJZUOJcr7W7KfFXoGhY=; b=WMVrZM7IeRbhGXkEEb0p7Tl/Vz FZyaovE79hsMMbOVWMoYVZHTZ85x17w5qVJxbVk9HfNkjo04tiHjXjGMhHZ4ZcgzglzAEJgQzwI8D wThQSZA3OyLm5GTQcrB4r/IXLytyaBqq+xApEnKzae2C2KbFv1QvtjuJ4+ay3JiBtHgg=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.92.2) (envelope-from ) id 1iSNk7-0000Hq-MT; Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:01:11 +0100 Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 17:01:11 +0100 From: Andrew Lunn To: Ioana Ciornei Cc: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "f.fainelli@gmail.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] staging: dpaa2-ethsw: add ACL entry to redirect STP to CPU Message-ID: <20191106160111.GC30762@lunn.ch> References: <1572957275-23383-1-git-send-email-ioana.ciornei@nxp.com> <1572957275-23383-7-git-send-email-ioana.ciornei@nxp.com> <20191105142202.GC7189@lunn.ch> <20191105155954.GE17620@lunn.ch> <20191106145038.GB30762@lunn.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > If I do this, I would have an L2 switch that relies on IP traffic > passing through it. Yes. > Also, if I use ACLs to model dynamic FDB entries than I will need to "software age > the ACLs... which is at least not ideal. The bridge will do that for you. > Andrew, thanks for all the advice given but I feel like I have to see if the firmware > can be changed to better model the CPU traffic before adding a lot of hacks and > pushing something with the current implementation. Yes. I agree. If the firmware can change, great. If not, you might have to do these hacks. Andrew