From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, vyasevic@redhat.com,
toshiaki.makita1@gmail.com, stephen@networkplumber.org,
bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, wkok@cumulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] bridge: vlan: allow to suppress local mac install for all vlans
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 23:06:41 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150825.230641.773630246486190390.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E065D3DC-6CBC-4625-8800-5133E21C5483@cumulusnetworks.com>
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 22:28:16 -0700
> Certainly, that should be done and I will look into it, but the
> essence of this patch is a bit different. The problem here is not
> the size of the fdb entries, it’s more the number of them - having
> 96000 entries (even if they were 1 byte ones) is just way too much
> especially when the fdb hash size is small and static. We could work
> on making it dynamic though, but still these type of local entries
> per vlan per port can easily be avoided with this option.
96000 bits can be stored in 12k. Get where I'm going with this?
Look at the problem sideways.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-26 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-26 0:34 [PATCH net-next v2] bridge: vlan: allow to suppress local mac install for all vlans Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-26 0:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-08-26 5:42 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-26 0:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-08-26 2:42 ` David Miller
2015-08-26 5:28 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-26 6:06 ` David Miller [this message]
2015-08-26 11:33 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-27 4:57 ` roopa
2015-08-27 21:02 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-27 23:47 ` Vlad Yasevich
2015-08-28 2:17 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-28 12:31 ` Vlad Yasevich
2015-08-28 15:26 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-29 1:11 ` Vlad Yasevich
2015-09-13 13:22 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2015-08-26 6:10 ` B Viswanath
2015-08-26 12:52 ` Vlad Yasevich
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