Re: [PATCH net-next v1 2/7] net: dsa: microchip: ksz8: Implement add/del_fdb and use static MAC table operations

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 02:19:11PM +0200, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> If I compare KSZ879CLX and KSZ8873MLL datasheets, i do not see direct
> answer. The only reason I can imagine is the size of static MAC table.
> All KSZ88xx and KSZ87xx variants have only 8 entries. One is already
> used for STP (even if STP is not enabled, can be optimized). If
> BRIDGE_VLAN compiled, each local address will be configured 2 times.
> So, depending on system configuration the static MAC table will full
> very soon.

Yikes. KSZ8765 has num_statics = 8 and port_cnt = 5 (so 4 user ports I
assume). So if all 4 user ports had their own MAC address, it would
simply not be possible to put them under a VLAN-aware bridge, since that
would consume 2 BR_FDB_LOCAL entries for each port, so the static MAC
table would be full even without taking the bridge's MAC address into
consideration.

Even with CONFIG_BRIDGE_VLAN_FILTERING turned off or with the bridge
option vlan_default_pvid = 0, this would still consume 4 BR_FDB_LOCAL
entries + one for the bridge's MAC address + 1 for STP, leaving only 2
entries usable for *both* bridge fdb, *and* bridge mdb.

I haven't opened the datasheets of these chips. Is it possible to use
the dynamic MAC table to store static(-ish) entries?