Re: [RFC net-next 1/2] net: dsa: tag_mtk: skip address learning on transmit to standalone ports

From: Vladimir Oltean
Date: Fri Jul 30 2021 - 15:07:15 EST


On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 03:00:20AM +0800, DENG Qingfang wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 07:24:03PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > Considering that you also have the option of setting
> > ds->assisted_learning_on_cpu_port = true and this will have less false
> > positives, what are the reasons why you did not choose that approach?
>
> After enabling it, I noticed .port_fdb_{add,del} are called with VID=0
> (which it does not use now) unless I turn on VLAN filtering. Is that
> normal?

They are called with the VID from the learned packet.
If the bridge is VLAN-unaware, the MAC SA is learned with VID 0.
Generally, VID 0 is always used for VLAN-unaware bridging. You can
privately translate VID 0 to whatever VLAN ID you use in VLAN-unaware
mode.