On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 02:31:11PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote: > I need to sit on this for a while. How many DSA drivers do we have that > don't do SA learning in hardware for CPU-injected packets? ocelot/felix > and mv88e6xxx? Who else? Because if there aren't that many (or any at > all except for these two), then I could try to spend some time and see > how Felix behaves when I send FORWARD frames to it. Then we could go on > full blast with the other alternative, to force-enable address learning > from the CPU port, and declare this one as too complicated and not worth > the effort.
In fact I'm not sure that I should be expecting an answer to this question. We can evaluate the other alternative in parallel. Would you be so kind to send some sort of RFC for your TX-side offload_fwd_mark so that I could test with the hardware I have, and get a better understanding of the limitations there?