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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@savoirfairelinux.com,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: dsa: check VLAN capability of every switch
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 12:39:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d6edbe3-a80b-6cc7-b7ec-d8f1578dea27@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170606205631.22880-3-vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>

On 06/06/2017 01:56 PM, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Now that the VLAN object is propagated to every switch chip of the
> switch fabric, we can easily ensure that they all support the required
> VLAN operations before modifying an entry on a single switch.
> 
> To achieve that, remove the condition skipping other target switches,
> and add a bitmap of VLAN members, eventually containing the target port,
> if we are programming the switch target.

You could add in the commit message that with this commit, there is not
actually a functional change yet because we have one (and only one) bit
set in the members bitmap.

> 
> This will allow us to easily add other VLAN members, such as the DSA or
> CPU ports (to introduce cross-chip VLAN support) or the other port
> members if we want to reduce hardware accesses later.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
-- 
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-07 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-06 20:56 [PATCH net-next 0/5] net: dsa: add cross-chip VLAN support Vivien Didelot
2017-06-06 20:56 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: define membership on VLAN add Vivien Didelot
2017-06-07 19:31   ` Florian Fainelli
2017-06-06 20:56 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: dsa: check VLAN capability of every switch Vivien Didelot
2017-06-07 19:39   ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2017-06-07 20:03     ` Vivien Didelot
2017-06-06 20:56 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] net: dsa: add CPU and DSA ports as VLAN members Vivien Didelot
2017-06-07 19:00   ` David Miller
2017-06-07 19:38   ` Florian Fainelli
2017-06-06 20:56 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: exclude all ports in new VLAN Vivien Didelot
2017-06-07 19:34   ` Florian Fainelli
2017-06-06 20:56 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: do not purge a VTU entry Vivien Didelot
2017-06-07 19:37   ` Florian Fainelli
2017-06-07 19:59     ` Vivien Didelot

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