Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 4 authors, 2015-08-26

Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: vlan: allow to suppress local mac install for all vlans

From: Vlad Yasevich <hidden>
Date: 2015-08-26 12:42:25
Also in: bridge

On 08/24/2015 08:55 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <redacted>

This patch adds a new knob that, when enabled, allows to suppress the
installation of local fdb entries in newly created vlans. This could
pose a big scalability issue if we have a large number of ports and a
large number of vlans, e.g. in a 48 port device with 2000 vlans these
entries easily go up to 96000.
Note that packets for these macs are still received properly because they
are added in vlan 0 as "own" macs and referenced when fdb lookup by vlan
results in a miss.
Also note that vlan membership of ingress port and the bridge device
as egress are still being correctly enforced.

The default (0/off) is keeping the current behaviour.

Based on a patch by Wilson Kok (wkok@cumulusnetworks.com).

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <redacted>
---
As usual I'll post iproute2 patch if this one gets accepted.
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diff --git a/net/bridge/br_vlan.c b/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
index 3cef6892c0bb..f9efa1b07994 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_vlan.c
@@ -98,11 +98,12 @@ static int __vlan_add(struct net_port_vlans *v, u16 vid, u16 flags)
 			return err;
 	}
 
-	err = br_fdb_insert(br, p, dev->dev_addr, vid);
-	if (err) {
-		br_err(br, "failed insert local address into bridge "
-		       "forwarding table\n");
-		goto out_filt;
+	if (!br_vlan_ignore_local_fdb(br) || !v->port_idx) {
+		err = br_fdb_insert(br, p, dev->dev_addr, vid);
+		if (err) {
+			br_err(br, "failed insert local address into bridge forwarding table\n");
+			goto out_filt;
+		}
 	}
One question.  Does it make sense to push this down into br_fdb_insert?
This patch prevents automatic entries from being added.  But what about
manual entries for a local fdb?  The code in br_fdb_add() will still a
vid 0 entry as well as entries for all vlans currently configured on the port.

-vlad
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 	set_bit(vid, v->vlan_bitmap);
@@ -492,6 +493,13 @@ int br_vlan_filter_toggle(struct net_bridge *br, unsigned long val)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+int br_vlan_ignore_local_fdb_toggle(struct net_bridge *br, unsigned long val)
+{
+	br->vlan_ignore_local_fdb = val ? true : false;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 int br_vlan_set_proto(struct net_bridge *br, unsigned long val)
 {
 	int err = 0;
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