Re: [RFC net-next] net: dsa: add support for MC_DISABLED attribute

Andrew Lunn
2019-06-29T23:06:31Z

> We have some tests under tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/, but
> not so much for MC. However, even if such tests were to be contributed,
> would you be able to run them on your hardware? I remember that in the
> past you complained about the number of required ports.

Hi Ido

Most devices have 4 or 5 ports. Some have more, some less. Given that
the current tests need a second port for every port under test, this
limits you to 2 ports under test. For IGMP snooping and MC in general,
i don't think that is enough. You need one port as the source of the
MC traffic, one port with a host interested in the traffic, and one
port without interest in the traffic. You can then test that traffic
is correctly forwarded and blocked.

The testing we do with DSA makes use of a test host with 4 interfaces,
and connect them one to one to the switch. That gives us 4 ports under
test, and so that gives us many more possibilities for running
interesting tests.

Andrew