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Ido Schimmel 6bc506b4fb bridge: switchdev: Add forward mark support for stacked devices
switchdev_port_fwd_mark_set() is used to set the 'offload_fwd_mark' of
port netdevs so that packets being flooded by the device won't be
flooded twice.

It works by assigning a unique identifier (the ifindex of the first
bridge port) to bridge ports sharing the same parent ID. This prevents
packets from being flooded twice by the same switch, but will flood
packets through bridge ports belonging to a different switch.

This method is problematic when stacked devices are taken into account,
such as VLANs. In such cases, a physical port netdev can have upper
devices being members in two different bridges, thus requiring two
different 'offload_fwd_mark's to be configured on the port netdev, which
is impossible.

The main problem is that packet and netdev marking is performed at the
physical netdev level, whereas flooding occurs between bridge ports,
which are not necessarily port netdevs.

Instead, packet and netdev marking should really be done in the bridge
driver with the switch driver only telling it which packets it already
forwarded. The bridge driver will mark such packets using the mark
assigned to the ingress bridge port and will prevent the packet from
being forwarded through any bridge port sharing the same mark (i.e.
having the same parent ID).

Remove the current switchdev 'offload_fwd_mark' implementation and
instead implement the proposed method. In addition, make rocker - the
sole user of the mark - use the proposed method.

Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-08-26 13:13:36 -07:00
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acpi treewide: replace obsolete _refok by __ref 2016-08-02 17:31:41 -04:00
asm-generic locking/qrwlock: Fix write unlock bug on big endian systems 2016-08-10 14:13:27 +02:00
clocksource
crypto A number of improvements for the /dev/random driver; the most 2016-07-27 15:11:55 -07:00
drm Merge branch 'drm-next-4.8' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next 2016-08-08 16:45:33 +10:00
dt-bindings ARM: DT updates for v4.8 2016-08-01 18:37:45 -04:00
keys
kvm KVM/ARM Changes for v4.8 - Take 2 2016-08-04 13:59:56 +02:00
linux bridge: switchdev: Add forward mark support for stacked devices 2016-08-26 13:13:36 -07:00
math-emu
media dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
memory
misc
net bridge: switchdev: Add forward mark support for stacked devices 2016-08-26 13:13:36 -07:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma Second round of merge items for 4.8 2016-08-04 20:26:31 -04:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2016-08-04 20:04:37 -04:00
soc ARM: SoC driver updates for v4.8 2016-08-01 18:36:01 -04:00
sound Merge tag 'drm-for-v4.8' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2016-08-01 21:44:08 -04:00
target target: Fix ordered task CHECK_CONDITION early exception handling 2016-07-20 00:58:40 -07:00
trace rxrpc: Use a tracepoint for skb accounting debugging 2016-08-23 15:27:24 +01:00
uapi tcp: md5: add LINUX_MIB_TCPMD5FAILURE counter 2016-08-25 16:43:11 -07:00
video
xen dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
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