On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:34:55 -0700 Nikolay Aleksandrov <ra...@blackwall.org> wrote:
> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com> > > This patch adds a new knob that, when enabled, allows to suppress the > installation of local fdb entries in newly created vlans. This could > pose a big scalability issue if we have a large number of ports and a > large number of vlans, e.g. in a 48 port device with 2000 vlans these > entries easily go up to 96000. > Note that packets for these macs are still received properly because they > are added in vlan 0 as "own" macs and referenced when fdb lookup by vlan > results in a miss. > Also note that vlan membership of ingress port and the bridge device > as egress are still being correctly enforced. > > The default (0/off) is keeping the current behaviour. > > Based on a patch by Wilson Kok (w...@cumulusnetworks.com). This is getting messy, but then again the bridge seems to have become a ghetto for a long time. I would rather see the lookup code fixed so that the fdb was correct. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
