On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 15:38, Nikolay Aleksandrov
<niko...@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:
>
> On 22/05/2020 00:10, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.olt...@nxp.com>
> >
> > In cases where the bridge is offloaded by a switchdev, there are
> > situations where we can optimize RX filtering towards the host. To be
> > precise, the host only needs to do termination, which it can do by
> > responding at the MAC addresses of the slave ports and of the bridge
> > interface itself. But most notably, it doesn't need to do forwarding,
> > so there is no need to see packets with unknown destination address.
> >
> > But there are, however, cases when a switchdev does need to flood to the
> > CPU. Such an example is when the switchdev is bridged with a foreign
> > interface, and since there is no offloaded datapath, packets need to
> > pass through the CPU. Currently this is the only identified case, but it
> > can be extended at any time.
> >
> > So far, switchdev implementers made driver-level assumptions, such as:
> > this chip is never integrated in SoCs where it can be bridged with a
> > foreign interface, so I'll just disable host flooding and save some CPU
> > cycles. Or: I can never know what else can be bridged with this
> > switchdev port, so I must leave host flooding enabled in any case.
> >
> > Let the bridge drive the host flooding decision, and pass it to
> > switchdev via the same mechanism as the external flooding flags.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.olt...@nxp.com>
> > ---
> > include/linux/if_bridge.h | 3 +++
> > net/bridge/br_if.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > net/bridge/br_switchdev.c | 4 +++-
> > 3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/if_bridge.h b/include/linux/if_bridge.h
> > index b3a8d3054af0..6891a432862d 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/if_bridge.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/if_bridge.h
> > @@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ struct br_ip_list {
> > #define BR_ISOLATED BIT(16)
> > #define BR_MRP_AWARE BIT(17)
> > #define BR_MRP_LOST_CONT BIT(18)
> > +#define BR_HOST_FLOOD BIT(19)
> > +#define BR_HOST_MCAST_FLOOD BIT(20)
> > +#define BR_HOST_BCAST_FLOOD BIT(21)
> >
> > #define BR_DEFAULT_AGEING_TIME (300 * HZ)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/bridge/br_if.c b/net/bridge/br_if.c
> > index a0e9a7937412..aae59d1e619b 100644
> > --- a/net/bridge/br_if.c
> > +++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c
> > @@ -166,6 +166,45 @@ void br_manage_promisc(struct net_bridge *br)
> > }
> > }
> >
> > +static int br_manage_host_flood(struct net_bridge *br)
> > +{
> > + const unsigned long mask = BR_HOST_FLOOD | BR_HOST_MCAST_FLOOD |
> > + BR_HOST_BCAST_FLOOD;
> > + struct net_bridge_port *p, *q;
> > +
> > + list_for_each_entry(p, &br->port_list, list) {
> > + unsigned long flags = p->flags;
> > + bool sw_bridging = false;
> > + int err;
> > +
> > + list_for_each_entry(q, &br->port_list, list) {
> > + if (p == q)
> > + continue;
> > +
> > + if (!netdev_port_same_parent_id(p->dev, q->dev)) {
> > + sw_bridging = true;
> > + break;
> > + }
> > + }
> > +
> > + if (sw_bridging)
> > + flags |= mask;
> > + else
> > + flags &= ~mask;
> > +
> > + if (flags == p->flags)
> > + continue;
> > +
> > + err = br_switchdev_set_port_flag(p, flags, mask);
> > + if (err)
> > + return err;
> > +
> > + p->flags = flags;
> > + }
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > int nbp_backup_change(struct net_bridge_port *p,
> > struct net_device *backup_dev)
> > {
> > @@ -231,6 +270,7 @@ static void nbp_update_port_count(struct net_bridge *br)
> > br->auto_cnt = cnt;
> > br_manage_promisc(br);
> > }
> > + br_manage_host_flood(br);
> > }
> >
>
> Can we do this only at port add/del ?
> Right now it will be invoked also by br_port_flags_change() upon BR_AUTO_MASK
> flag change.
>
Yes, we can do that.
Actually I have some doubts about BR_HOST_BCAST_FLOOD. We can't
disable that in the no-foreign-interface case, can we? For IPv6, it
looks like the stack does take care of installing dev_mc addresses for
the neighbor discovery protocol, but for IPv4 I guess the assumption
is that broadcast ARP should always be processed?
> > static void nbp_delete_promisc(struct net_bridge_port *p)
> > diff --git a/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c b/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c
> > index 015209bf44aa..360806ac7463 100644
> > --- a/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c
> > +++ b/net/bridge/br_switchdev.c
> > @@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ bool nbp_switchdev_allowed_egress(const struct
> > net_bridge_port *p,
> >
> > /* Flags that can be offloaded to hardware */
> > #define BR_PORT_FLAGS_HW_OFFLOAD (BR_LEARNING | BR_FLOOD | \
> > - BR_MCAST_FLOOD | BR_BCAST_FLOOD)
> > + BR_MCAST_FLOOD | BR_BCAST_FLOOD | \
> > + BR_HOST_FLOOD | BR_HOST_MCAST_FLOOD | \
> > + BR_HOST_BCAST_FLOOD)
> >
> > int br_switchdev_set_port_flag(struct net_bridge_port *p,
> > unsigned long flags,
> >
>
Thanks,
-Vladimir
