On 16/12/2016 10:24, Volodymyr Bendiuga wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does this mean we all agree on implementing caching
> mechanism in net/dsa layer? If yes, then I can start
> working on it immediately.
>
> Regards,
> Volodymyr
i think that the brcm approach is better as at least on QCA you can also
read auto learned values from the table which would get broken by a
caching mechanism. filtering inside the dump function or the code
calling the dump function seams a lot simpler and lightweight to me.
John
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Vivien Didelot
> <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Florian Fainelli <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> writes:
>
> >> In all cases *if caching is really needed*, I think it won't hurt to do
> >> it in DSA core even if a switch support FDB dump operations on a
> >> per-port basis, as Andrew mentioned.
> >
> > Agreed, and there does not appear to be any need to new dsa_switch_ops
> > operations to be introduced?
>
> Nope.
>
>
