Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: support cross-chip ageing time

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Tue May 23 2017 - 16:20:28 EST


On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 03:20:59PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Now that the switchdev bridge ageing time attribute is propagated to all
> switch chips of the fabric, each switch can check if the requested value
> is valid and program itself, so that the whole fabric shares a common
> ageing time setting.
>
> This is especially needed for switch chips in between others, containing
> no bridge port members but evidently used in the data path.
>
> To achieve that, remove the condition which skips the other switches. We
> also don't need to identify the target switch anymore, thus remove the
> sw_index member of the dsa_notifier_ageing_time_info notifier structure.
>
> On ZII Dev Rev B (with two 88E6352 and one 88E6185) and ZII Dev Rev C
> (with two 88E6390X), we have the following hardware configuration:
>
> # ip link add name br0 type bridge
> # ip link set master br0 dev lan6
> br0: port 1(lan6) entered blocking state
> br0: port 1(lan6) entered disabled state
> # echo 2000 > /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/ageing_time
>
> Before this patch:
>
> zii-rev-b# cat /sys/kernel/debug/mv88e6xxx/sw*/age_time
> 300000
> 300000
> 15000
>
> zii-rev-c# cat /sys/kernel/debug/mv88e6xxx/sw*/age_time
> 300000
> 18750
>
> After this patch:
>
> zii-rev-b# cat /sys/kernel/debug/mv88e6xxx/sw*/age_time
> 15000
> 15000
> 15000
>
> zii-rev-c# cat /sys/kernel/debug/mv88e6xxx/sw*/age_time
> 18750
> 18750
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Andrew