Ever since the cross-chip notifiers were introduced, the design was
meant to be simplistic and just get the job done without worrying too
much about dangling resources left behind.
For example, somebody installs an MDB entry on sw0p0 in this daisy chain
topology. It gets installed using ds->ops->port_mdb_add() on sw0p0,
sw1p4 and sw2p4.
|
sw0p0 sw0p1 sw0p2 sw0p3 sw0p4
[ user ] [ user ] [ user ] [ dsa ] [ cpu ]
[ x ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
|
+---------+
|
sw1p0 sw1p1 sw1p2 sw1p3 sw1p4
[ user ] [ user ] [ user ] [ dsa ] [ dsa ]
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ x ]
|
+---------+
|
sw2p0 sw2p1 sw2p2 sw2p3 sw2p4
[ user ] [ user ] [ user ] [ user ] [ dsa ]
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ x ]
Then the same person deletes that MDB entry. The cross-chip notifier for
deletion only matches sw0p0:
|
sw0p0 sw0p1 sw0p2 sw0p3 sw0p4
[ user ] [ user ] [ user ] [ dsa ] [ cpu ]
[ x ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
|
+---------+
|
sw1p0 sw1p1 sw1p2 sw1p3 sw1p4
[ user ] [ user ] [ user ] [ dsa ] [ dsa ]
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
|
+---------+
|
sw2p0 sw2p1 sw2p2 sw2p3 sw2p4
[ user ] [ user ] [ user ] [ user ] [ dsa ]
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
Why?
Because the DSA links are 'trunk' ports, if we just go ahead and delete
the MDB from sw1p4 and sw2p4 directly, we might delete those multicast
entries when they are still needed. Just consider the fact that somebody
does:
- add a multicast MAC address towards sw0p0 [ via the cross-chip
notifiers it gets installed on the DSA links too ]
- add the same multicast MAC address towards sw0p1 (another port of that
same switch)
- delete the same multicast MAC address from sw0p0.
At this point, if we deleted the MAC address from the DSA links, it
would be flooded, even though there is still an entry on switch 0 which
needs it not to.
So that is why deletions only match the targeted source port and nothing
on DSA links. Of course, dangling resources means that the hardware
tables will eventually run out given enough additions/removals, but hey,
at least it's simple.
But there is a bigger concern which needs to be addressed, and that is
our support for SWITCHDEV_OBJ_ID_HOST_MDB. DSA simply translates such an
object into a dsa_port_host_mdb_add() which ends up as ds->ops->port_mdb_add()
on the upstream port, and a similar thing happens on deletion:
dsa_port_host_mdb_del() will trigger ds->ops->port_mdb_del() on the
upstream port.
When there are 2 VLAN-unaware bridges spanning the same switch (which is
a use case DSA proudly supports), each bridge will install its own
SWITCHDEV_OBJ_ID_HOST_MDB entries. But upon deletion, DSA goes ahead and
emits a DSA_NOTIFIER_MDB_DEL for dp->cpu_dp, which is shared between the
user ports enslaved to br0 and the user ports enslaved to br1. Not good.
The host-trapped multicast addresses installed by br1 will be deleted
when any state changes in br0 (IGMP timers expire, or ports leave, etc).
To avoid this, we could of course go the route of the zero-sum game and
delete the DSA_NOTIFIER_MDB_DEL call for dp->cpu_dp. But the better
design is to just admit that on shared ports like DSA links and CPU
ports, we should be reference counting calls, even if this consumes some
dynamic memory which DSA has traditionally avoided. On the flip side,
the hardware tables of switches are limited in size, so it would be good
if the OS managed them properly instead of having them eventually
overflow.
To address the memory usage concern, we only apply the refcounting of
MDB entries on ports that are really shared (CPU ports and DSA links)
and not on user ports. In a typical single-switch setup, this means only
the CPU port (and the host MDB entries are not that many, really).
The name of the newly introduced data structures (dsa_mac_addr) is
chosen in such a way that will be reusable for host FDB entries (next
patch).
With this change, we can finally have the same matching logic for the
MDB additions and deletions, as well as for their host-trapped variants.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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