From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Arkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@mellanox.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, jiri@resnulli.us, ivecera@redhat.com,
andrew@lunn.ch, vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com,
Woojung.Huh@microchip.com, stephen@networkplumber.org,
mlxsw@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC 02/12] net: dsa: Remove prepare phase for FDB
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 12:25:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <65318e63-77fb-c06f-b752-54faaee5a0ec@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1499268990-19251-3-git-send-email-arkadis@mellanox.com>
On 07/05/2017 08:36 AM, Arkadi Sharshevsky wrote:
> The prepare phase for FDB add is unneeded because most of DSA devices
> can have failures during bus transactions (SPI, I2C, etc.), thus, the
> prepare phase cannot guarantee success of the commit stage.
>
> The support for learning FDB through notification chain, which will be
> introduced in the following patches, will provide the ability to notify
> back the bridge about successful offload.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
--
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-05 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-05 15:36 [PATCH net-next RFC 00/12] Change DSA's FDB API and perform switchdev cleanup Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-05 15:36 ` [PATCH net-next RFC 01/12] net: dsa: Change DSA slave FDB API to be switchdev independent Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-05 19:13 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-07-05 15:36 ` [PATCH net-next RFC 02/12] net: dsa: Remove prepare phase for FDB Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-05 19:25 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2017-07-06 18:20 ` Vivien Didelot
2017-07-05 15:36 ` [PATCH net-next RFC 03/12] net: dsa: Remove switchdev dependency from DSA switch notifier chain Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-05 19:26 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-07-06 18:42 ` Vivien Didelot
2017-07-05 15:36 ` [PATCH net-next RFC 04/12] net: dsa: Add ordered workqueue Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-05 19:37 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-07-06 18:45 ` Vivien Didelot
2017-07-09 12:56 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-05 15:36 ` [PATCH net-next RFC 05/12] net: dsa: Add support for learning FDB through notification Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-05 19:35 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-07-06 13:04 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-10 20:59 ` Vivien Didelot
2017-07-11 10:26 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-11 15:05 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2017-07-12 11:23 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-12 11:42 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2017-07-05 15:36 ` [PATCH net-next RFC 06/12] net: dsa: Remove support for FDB add/del via SELF Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-05 15:36 ` [PATCH net-next RFC 07/12] net: dsa: Add support for querying supported bridge flags Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-05 15:36 ` [PATCH net-next RFC 08/12] net: dsa: Remove support for bypass bridge port attributes/vlan set Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-05 19:45 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-07-06 11:00 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-06 21:36 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-07-09 13:56 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-10 17:13 ` Vivien Didelot
2017-07-05 15:36 ` [PATCH net-next RFC 09/12] net: dsa: Remove redundant MDB dump support Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-05 15:36 ` [PATCH net-next RFC 10/12] net: dsa: Move FDB dump implementation inside DSA Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-10 19:36 ` Vivien Didelot
2017-07-11 8:32 ` Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-05 15:36 ` [PATCH net-next RFC 11/12] net: bridge: Remove FDB deletion through switchdev object Arkadi Sharshevsky
2017-07-05 15:36 ` [PATCH net-next RFC 12/12] net: switchdev: Remove bridge bypass support from switchdev Arkadi Sharshevsky
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