Re: [RFC PATCH] net: bridge: multicast querier per VLAN support
From: Joachim Nilsson <hidden>
Date: 2018-04-18 13:07:23
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 03:31:57PM +0300, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
On 18/04/18 15:07, Joachim Nilsson wrote:quoted
- First of all, is this patch useful to anyoneObviously to us as it's based on our patch. :-) We actually recently discussed what will be needed to make it acceptable to upstream.
Great! :)
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- The current br_multicast.c is very complex. The support for both IPv4 and IPv6 is a no-brainer, but it also has #ifdef VLAN_FILTERING and 'br->vlan_enabled' ... this has likely been discussed before, but if we could remove those code paths I believe what's left would be quite a bit easier to read and maintain.br->vlan_enabled has a wrapper that can be used without ifdefs, as does br_vlan_find() so in short - you can remove the ifdefs and use the wrappers, they'll degrade to always false/null when vlans are disabled.
Thanks, I'll have a look at that and prepare an RFC v2!
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- Many per-bridge specific multicast sysfs settings may need to have a corresponding per-VLAN setting, e.g. snooping, query_interval, etc. How should we go about that? (For status reporting I have a proposal)We'll have to add more to the per-vlan context, but yes it has to happen. It will be only netlink interface for config/retrieval, no sysfs.
Some settings are possible to do with sysfs, like multicast_query_interval and ...
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- Dito per-port specific multicast sysfs settings, e.g. multicast_routerI'm not sure I follow this one, there is per-port mcast router config now ?
Sorry no, I meant we may want to add more per-VLAN settings when we get this base patch merged. Like router ports, we may want to be able to set them per VLAN.
Thanks for the effort, I see that you have done some of the required cleanups for this to be upstreamable, but as you've noted above we need to make it complete (with the per-vlan contexts and all).
There's definitely more work to be done. Agreeing on a base set of changes to start with is maybe the most important, as well as making it complete.
I will review this patch in detail later and come back if there's anything.
Thank you so much for the quick feedback so far! :) Cheers /Joachim