From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
stephen@networkplumber.org, nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com,
tgraf@suug.ch, hannes@stressinduktion.org, pshelar@ovn.org,
dsa@cumulusnetworks.com, hadi@mojatatu.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/5] bridge: per vlan lwt and dst_metadata support
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 09:51:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170123095130.59ddcf34@griffin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170123080805.GB1831@nanopsycho.orion>
On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 09:08:05 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 06:46:51AM CET, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com wrote:
> >Other approaches tried and vetoed:
> >- tc vlan push/pop and tunnel metadata dst:
> > - posses a tc rule scalability problem (2 rules per vni)
>
> Why it is a problem?
Wanted to ask exactly the same question.
> > - cannot handle the case where a packet needs to be replicated to
> > multiple vxlan remote tunnel end-points.. which the vxlan driver
> > can do today by having multiple remote destinations per fdb.
>
> Can't you just extend the tc to support this?
+1
> To me, looks like the tc is the correct place to hangle this. Then, the
> user can use it for multiple cases of forwarding, including bridge,
> tc-mirred, ovs and others. Putting this in bridge somehow seems wrong in
> this light. Also, the bridge code is polluted enough as it is. I this we
> should be super-picky to add another code there.
Completely agreed.
Jiri
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-23 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-21 5:46 [RFC PATCH net-next 0/5] bridge: per vlan lwt and dst_metadata support Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-21 5:46 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 1/5] ip_tunnels: new IP_TUNNEL_INFO_BRIDGE flag for ip_tunnel_info mode Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-21 5:46 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 2/5] vxlan: make COLLECT_METADATA mode bridge friendly Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-22 11:40 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2017-01-22 15:18 ` Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-21 5:46 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 3/5] bridge: uapi: add per vlan tunnel info Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-21 16:59 ` Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-21 5:46 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 4/5] bridge: vlan lwt and dst_metadata netlink support Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-22 12:05 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2017-01-22 15:23 ` Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-23 0:22 ` Rosen, Rami
2017-01-23 15:39 ` Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-21 5:46 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 5/5] bridge: vlan lwt dst_metadata hooks in ingress and egress paths Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-22 12:15 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2017-01-22 15:27 ` Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-23 8:08 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 0/5] bridge: per vlan lwt and dst_metadata support Jiri Pirko
2017-01-23 8:51 ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2017-01-23 16:13 ` Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-23 16:24 ` Jiri Benc
2017-01-24 0:00 ` Roopa Prabhu
[not found] ` <CAJ3xEMiC5xJ+rex8xMnyuGj5QKj+sYA9A6JjOM0xQaZraFSHig@mail.gmail.com>
2017-01-24 0:09 ` Roopa Prabhu
2017-01-24 15:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-25 17:08 ` Roopa Prabhu
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