From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
Amit Cohen <amcohen@nvidia.com>,
mlxsw@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/6] mlxsw: Trap ARP packets at layer 2 instead of layer 3
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:57:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250320155754.GD889584@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2a2cc607a1f4cb96c10bd3b0b0244ba3117fd2e.1742224300.git.petrm@nvidia.com>
On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 06:37:26PM +0100, Petr Machata wrote:
> From: Amit Cohen <amcohen@nvidia.com>
>
> Next patch will set the same hardware domain for all bridge ports,
> including VXLAN, to prevent packets from being forwarded by software when
> they were already forwarded by hardware.
>
> ARP packets are not flooded by hardware to VXLAN, so software should handle
> such flooding. When hardware domain of VXLAN device will be changed, ARP
> packets which are trapped and marked with offload_fwd_mark will not be
> flooded to VXLAN also in software, which will break VXLAN traffic.
>
> To prevent such breaking, trap ARP packets at layer 2 and don't mark them
> as L2-forwarded in hardware, then flooding ARP packets will be done only
> in software, and VXLAN will send ARP packets.
>
> Remove NVE_ENCAP_ARP which is no longer needed, as now ARP packets are
> trapped when they enter the device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Amit Cohen <amcohen@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-20 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-17 17:37 [PATCH net-next 0/6] mlxsw: Add VXLAN to the same hardware domain as physical bridge ports Petr Machata
2025-03-17 17:37 ` [PATCH net-next 1/6] mlxsw: Trap ARP packets at layer 2 instead of layer 3 Petr Machata
2025-03-20 15:57 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2025-03-17 17:37 ` [PATCH net-next 2/6] mlxsw: spectrum: Call mlxsw_sp_bridge_vxlan_{join, leave}() for VLAN-aware bridge Petr Machata
2025-03-20 15:58 ` Simon Horman
2025-03-17 17:37 ` [PATCH net-next 3/6] mlxsw: spectrum_switchdev: Add an internal API for VXLAN leave Petr Machata
2025-03-20 15:58 ` Simon Horman
2025-03-17 17:37 ` [PATCH net-next 4/6] mlxsw: spectrum_switchdev: Move mlxsw_sp_bridge_vxlan_join() Petr Machata
2025-03-20 15:58 ` Simon Horman
2025-03-17 17:37 ` [PATCH net-next 5/6] mlxsw: Add VXLAN bridge ports to same hardware domain as physical bridge ports Petr Machata
2025-03-20 16:00 ` Simon Horman
2025-03-17 17:37 ` [PATCH net-next 6/6] selftests: vxlan_bridge: Test flood with unresolved FDB entry Petr Machata
2025-03-20 16:00 ` Simon Horman
2025-03-24 22:20 ` [PATCH net-next 0/6] mlxsw: Add VXLAN to the same hardware domain as physical bridge ports patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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