On 13/03/2023 16:53, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> Add an internal flag to indicate whether MDB entries are configured or
> not. Set the flag after installing the first MDB entry and clear it
> before deleting the last one.
> 
> The flag will be consulted by the data path which will only perform an
> MDB lookup if the flag is set, thereby keeping the MDB overhead to a
> minimum when the MDB is not used.
> 
> Another option would have been to use a static key, but it is global and
> not per-device, unlike the current approach.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_mdb.c | 7 +++++++
>  include/net/vxlan.h           | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 

Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>


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