From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com,
bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: optimize backup_port fdb convergence
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 17:40:55 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190404.174055.1070774187116102708.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190403104924.32695-1-nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 13:49:24 +0300
> We can optimize the fdb convergence when a backup_port is present by not
> immediately flushing the entries of the stopped port since traffic for
> those entries will flow towards the backup_port.
>
> There are 2 cases specifically that benefit most:
> - when the stopped port comes up before the entries expire by themselves
> - when there's an external entry refresh and they're kept while the
> backup_port is operating (e.g. mlag)
>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-05 0:40 UTC|newest]
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2019-04-03 10:49 [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: optimize backup_port fdb convergence Nikolay Aleksandrov
2019-04-05 0:40 ` David Miller [this message]
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