From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] net: dsa: bcm_sf2: implement HW bridging operations Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:03:52 -0800 Message-ID: <20150220010352.GA300@roeck-us.net> References: <1424201196-4901-1-git-send-email-f.fainelli@gmail.com> <1424201196-4901-3-git-send-email-f.fainelli@gmail.com> <54E54EF3.9020802@gmail.com> <20150219055953.GA14247@roeck-us.net> <54E61CFB.3010109@gmail.com> <20150219174640.GA6897@roeck-us.net> <54E676DD.9090003@gmail.com> <20150220000935.GA30118@roeck-us.net> <54E68512.6070108@cumulusnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Florian Fainelli , netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com, jerome.oufella@savoirfairelinux.com, andrew@lunn.ch, cphealy@gmail.com To: roopa Return-path: Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:51458 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753937AbbBTBD5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:03:57 -0500 Received: from mailnull by bh-25.webhostbox.net with sa-checked (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1YOc0a-000z1L-Cj for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 01:03:56 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54E68512.6070108@cumulusnetworks.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 04:51:30PM -0800, roopa wrote: > > > >Not sure yet what to do about setting the fdb aging time. I don't see a > >mechanism to do that. No idea how important that is. > rocker, the only consumer today relies on the bridge driver aging of learnt > entries. > You could do the same. > Remember that we are dealing with hardware switch chips. Those chips won't time out fdb entries just because the kernel's bridge driver thinks that it should. Am I missing something ? Guenter