On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:08:42AM +0000, Premkumar Jonnala wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rosen, Rami [mailto:rami.ro...@intel.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 10:25 AM > > To: Premkumar Jonnala; roopa > > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org > > Subject: RE: [PATCH] bridge: Enable configuration of ageing interval for > > bridges > > and switch devices. > > > > Hi, > > > > First, I agree about the need to propagate the ageing interval to switchdev > > devices, so that hardware based aging can be setup correctly. > > > > Second, in this occasion, I want to mention the need to > > turn off bridge ageing in the kernel as part of using switchdev devices. > > This is > > mentioned in > > https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net- > > next/+/master/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt: > > > > ... > > XXX: how to turn off ageing in kernel on a per-port basis or > > otherwise prevent the kernel from ageing out the FDB entry? > > ... > > > > One can think of the option of using value 0 of the ageing interval as an > > indication to turn off bridge ageing in the kernel, and any other value > > bigger > > than MIN_AGEING_INTERVAL_SECS to turn on bridge ageing. > > I recall that there was a patch proposed to prevent ageing of fdb entried by > bridge in kernel, > when the fdb entry was added due to notification by switch device. Please > see: > http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg314770.html > > Somehow the patch is not visible in the net-next pull.
It has been reverted by commit 3fcf90111887 as requested by http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg315236.html Michal Kubecek -- 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
