Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 06/17] net: dsa: sja1105: Limit use of incl_srcpt to bridge+vlan mode

[Florian Fainelli]

On 6/4/2019 10:07 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> The incl_srcpt setting makes the switch mangle the destination MACs of
> multicast frames trapped to the CPU - a primitive tagging mechanism that
> works even when we cannot use the 802.1Q software features.
> 
> The downside is that the two multicast MAC addresses that the switch
> traps for L2 PTP (01-80-C2-00-00-0E and 01-1B-19-00-00-00) quickly turn
> into a lot more, as the switch encodes the source port and switch id
> into bytes 3 and 4 of the MAC. The resulting range of MAC addresses
> would need to be installed manually into the DSA master port's multicast
> MAC filter, and even then, most devices might not have a large enough
> MAC filtering table.
> 
> As a result, only limit use of incl_srcpt to when it's strictly
> necessary: when under a VLAN filtering bridge.  This fixes PTP in
> non-bridged mode (standalone ports). Otherwise, PTP frames, as well as
> metadata follow-up frames holding RX timestamps won't be received
> because they will be blocked by the master port's MAC filter.
> Linuxptp doesn't help, because it only requests the addition of the
> unmodified PTP MACs to the multicast filter.
> This issue is not seen in bridged mode because the master port is put in
> promiscuous mode when the slave ports are enslaved to a bridge.
> Therefore, there is no downside to having the incl_srcpt mechanism
> active there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
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Florian