Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/5] Replay and offload host VLAN entries in DSA

[Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>]

On 14/02/2022 12:07, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:59:02AM +0200, Ido Schimmel wrote:
>> Sounds good to me as well. I assume it means patches #1 and #2 will be
>> changed to make use of this flag and patch #3 will be dropped?
> 
> Not quite. Patches 1 and 2 will be kept as-is, since fundamentally,
> their goal is to eliminate a useless SWITCHDEV_PORT_OBJ_ADD event when
> really nothing has changed (flags == old_flags, no brentry was created).
> 

I don't think that's needed, a two-line change like
"vlan_already_exists == true && old_flags == flags then do nothing"
would do the trick in DSA for all drivers and avoid the churn of these patches.
It will also keep the order of the events consistent with (most of) the rest
of the bridge. I'd prefer the simpler change which avoids config reverts than
these two patches.

> Patch 3 will be replaced with another patch that extends
> br_switchdev_port_vlan_add() and struct switchdev_obj_port_vlan with a
> "bool changed" meaning that "this notification signifies a change of
> flags for an existing VLAN", and the callers of br_switchdev_port_vlan_add()
> will populate it with false, or *changed, or *flags_changed, as appropriate.

Thanks,
 Nik