On 3/19/25 00:42, Joseph Huang wrote: > Currently the bridge does not provide real-time feedback to user space > on whether or not an attempt to offload an mdb entry was successful. > > This patch set adds support to notify user space about successful and > failed offload attempts, and the behavior is controlled by a new knob > mdb_notify_on_flag_change: > > 0 - the bridge will not notify user space about MDB flag change > 1 - the bridge will notify user space about flag change if either > MDB_PG_FLAGS_OFFLOAD or MDB_PG_FLAGS_OFFLOAD_FAILED has changed > 2 - the bridge will notify user space about flag change only if > MDB_PG_FLAGS_OFFLOAD_FAILED has changed > > The default value is 0. > > A break-down of the patches in the series: > > Patch 1 adds offload failed flag to indicate that the offload attempt > has failed. The flag is reflected in netlink mdb entry flags. > > Patch 2 adds the knob mdb_notify_on_flag_change, and notify user space > accordingly in br_switchdev_mdb_complete() when the result is known. > > Patch 3 adds netlink interface to manipulate mdb_notify_on_flag_change > knob. > > This patch set was inspired by the patch series "Add support for route > offload failure notifications" discussed here: > https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ > > Joseph Huang (3): > net: bridge: mcast: Add offload failed mdb flag > net: bridge: mcast: Notify on offload flag change > net: bridge: Add notify on flag change netlink i/f > > include/uapi/linux/if_bridge.h | 9 +++++---- > include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ > net/bridge/br_mdb.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ > net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ > net/bridge/br_private.h | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++----- > net/bridge/br_switchdev.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > 7 files changed, 137 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) >
Hi, Could you please share more about the motivation - why do you need this and what will be using it? Also why do you need an option with 3 different modes instead of just an on/off switch for these notifications? Thanks, Nik
