From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Frank Wunderlich <frankwu@gmx.de>, Chad Monroe <chad@monroe.io>,
Cezary Wilmanski <cezary.wilmanski@adtran.com>,
Liang Xu <lxu@maxlinear.com>,
"Benny (Ying-Tsan) Weng" <yweng@maxlinear.com>,
Jose Maria Verdu Munoz <jverdu@maxlinear.com>,
Avinash Jayaraman <ajayaraman@maxlinear.com>,
John Crispin <john@phrozen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 1/4] net: dsa: add driver-private pointer to struct dsa_bridge
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:12:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260323161242.52u35huiot3khq5w@skbuf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ff5b936b1f4ad31ffe132aaef798d247a8ac812.1774136876.git.daniel@makrotopia.org>
On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 12:18:58AM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:
> When a DSA driver offloads a bridge to firmware, it typically receives a
> firmware-assigned bridge identifier (e.g. a FID) that must be stored and
> retrieved by subsequent operations. Without a place to store this in the
> DSA core's bridge structure, drivers must maintain a parallel list of
> bridge objects and search it on every join, leave, and FDB operation.
Why list?
What's wrong with a driver-level array for lookup? The bridge.num is
guaranteed to be between 1 and ds->max_num_bridges.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-23 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-22 0:18 [PATCH net-next v6 0/4] net: dsa: mxl862xx: add support for bridge offloading Daniel Golle
2026-03-22 0:18 ` [PATCH net-next v6 1/4] net: dsa: add driver-private pointer to struct dsa_bridge Daniel Golle
2026-03-23 16:12 ` Vladimir Oltean [this message]
2026-03-22 0:19 ` [PATCH net-next v6 2/4] net: dsa: add bridge member iteration macro and port mask helper Daniel Golle
2026-03-23 2:29 ` Daniel Golle
2026-03-23 16:31 ` Vladimir Oltean
2026-03-23 16:45 ` Daniel Golle
2026-03-23 21:15 ` Vladimir Oltean
2026-03-23 21:47 ` Daniel Golle
2026-03-24 23:31 ` Daniel Golle
2026-03-25 8:34 ` Vladimir Oltean
2026-03-25 10:43 ` Daniel Golle
2026-03-23 10:39 ` kernel test robot
2026-03-24 20:58 ` kernel test robot
2026-03-22 0:19 ` [PATCH net-next v6 3/4] dsa: tag_mxl862xx: set dsa_default_offload_fwd_mark() Daniel Golle
2026-03-22 0:19 ` [PATCH net-next v6 4/4] net: dsa: mxl862xx: implement bridge offloading Daniel Golle
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