Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: drop vid0 configuration in dual_mac modey

[Grygorii Strashko]

On 11/26/18 2:07 PM, Ivan Khoronzhuk wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 12:57:20PM -0600, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/26/18 10:26 AM, Ivan Khoronzhuk wrote:
>>> On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 05:46:26PM -0600, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
>>>> In dual_mac mode CPSW driver uses vid1 and vid2 by default to implement
>>>> dual mac mode wich are used to configure pvids for each external ports.
>>>> But, historicaly, it also adds vid0 to ALE table and sets "untag" bits for both
>>>> ext. ports. As result, it's imposible to use priority tagged packets in
>>>> dual mac mode.
>>>>
>>>> Hence, drop vid0 configuration in dual mac mode as it's not required for dual
>>>> mac mode functionality and, this way, make it possible to use priority
>>>> tagged packet in dual mac mode.
>>> So, now it's enabled to be added via regular ndo.
>>> I have similar change in mind, but was going to send it after
>>> mcast/ucast, and - enabling same vlans patch...
>>>
>>> 2 things stopped me to add this:
>>>
>>> 1) Moving it to be enabled via regular call is Ok, but in dual mac mode
>>> it causes overlaps, at least while vid deletion. So decided to wait till
>>> same vlans series is applied.
>>
>> TI driver documentation mentions this restriction
>> "While adding VLAN id to the eth interfaces,
>> same VLAN id should not be added in both interfaces which will lead to VLAN
>> forwarding and act as switch"
> It's not accurate now.
> This sw bug "acting like a switch" was fixed indirectly in LKML ).
> And at least for upstream version, not TISDK, desc should be updated,
> but better do this when it fixed completely and merged with TISDK.
> 
> I know about this "written" restriction
> (for tiSDK, and it's not TRM after all ...),
> it can be avoided and it's partly avoided now ...

I'd like to clarify point about supporting same VLANs in dual_mac mode,
to avoid future misunderstanding, overall: it's *not* supported as
adding same VLAN to both netdevices will cause unknown unicast packets
leaking between interfaces and it can't be avoided - hw limitation.

Regarding vid0 - current default configuration of CPSW considers
vid0/priority tagged packets as - untagged and assigns pvid to any
such ingress packet inside switch. Hence, P0 (Linux host) egress port
never modifies packet contents - this behavior is not visible to Linux.
(EN_VID0_MODE=0, P1_PASS_PRI_TAGGED=0)

> 
> Also, for notice, while you add any of the vlans to any of
> the ports, vlan0 is added to both of them.....restricted it or not.
> Thanks to last changes in the driver it's not "acting like a switch"
> The patch in question enables this in ndo, not me.
> 
> #ip link add link eth0 name eth0.400 type vlan id 400
> [Â 326.538989] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
> [Â 326.543217] 8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device eth0
> [Â 326.554645] 8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device eth1
> [Â 326.572236] net eth0: Adding vlanid 400 to vlan filter
> 
> I just propose to extend it later, when it's correct to do.
> But if no harm (basically no harm, only if someone decides
> to add vlan0 to both ports and then delete on one of them)
> , at least you should take this into account.
> 



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regards,
-grygorii