From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 19:55:01 +0000
> Petr says: > > When a VXLAN device is attached to a bridge of a driver capable of > offloading such, or upped, the FDB entries already present at the device > need to be offloaded. Similarly when an offloaded VXLAN device ceases > being interesting (it is downed, or detached, or a front-panel port > netdevice is detached from the bridge that the VXLAN device is attached > to), any offloaded FDB entries need to be unoffloaded and unmarked. This > attach / detach processing is implemented in this patchset. > > In patch #1, a code pattern is extracted into a named function for > easier reuse. > > In patch #2, vxlan_fdb_replay() is added to send > SWITCHDEV_VXLAN_FDB_ADD_TO_DEVICE for each FDB entry with a given VNI. > The intention is that the offloading driver will interpret these events > like any other and thus offload the FDB entries that existed prior to > VXLAN attach. > > In patches #3 and #4, the functions vxlan_fdb_clear_offload() resp. > br_fdb_clear_offload() are added. These clear the offloaded flag at > matching FDB entries. > > In patches #5-#9, we introduce FID-type-specific and NVE-type-specific > ops necessary to properly abstract invocations of the replay/clear > functions. > > Finally patch #10 implements the FDB management. > > In patch #11, the mlxsw-specific test case is extended to check that the > management of offload marks under the newly-supported situations is > correct. Patch #12, from Ido, exercises the new code paths in actual > functional test. ... Series applied, thanks.
