[Bridge] [PATCH net-next v2] bridge: vlan: allow to suppress local mac install for all vlans

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Aug 26 06:06:41 UTC 2015


From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay at cumulusnetworks.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 22:28:16 -0700

> Certainly, that should be done and I will look into it, but the
> essence of this patch is a bit different. The problem here is not
> the size of the fdb entries, it’s more the number of them - having
> 96000 entries (even if they were 1 byte ones) is just way too much
> especially when the fdb hash size is small and static. We could work
> on making it dynamic though, but still these type of local entries
> per vlan per port can easily be avoided with this option.

96000 bits can be stored in 12k.  Get where I'm going with this?

Look at the problem sideways.


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