[Bridge] [PATCH v2 0/3] Add NETIF_F_HW_BR_CAP feature

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 16:20, Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch> wrote:
>
> > That sounds like a great idea. I was expecting to add this logic in the
> > set_rx_mode function of the driver. But unfortunetly, I got the calls to
> > this function before the dev->promiscuity is updated or not to get the
> > call at all. For example in case the port is member of a bridge and I try
> > to enable the promisc mode.
>
> Hi Horatiu
>
> What about the notifier? Is it called in all the conditions you need
> to know about?
>
> Or, you could consider adding a new switchdev call to pass this
> information to any switchdev driver which is interested in the
> information.
>
> At the moment, the DSA driver core does not pass onto the driver it
> should put a port into promisc mode. So pcap etc, will only see
> traffic directed to the CPU, not all the traffic ingressing the
> interface. If you put the needed core infrastructure into place, we
> could plumb it down from the DSA core to DSA drivers.
>
> Having said that, i don't actually know if the Marvell switches
> support this. Forward using the ATU and send a copy to the CPU?  What
> switches tend to support is port mirroring, sending all the traffic
> out another port. A couple of DSA drivers support that, via TC.
>

But the CPU port is not a valid destination for port mirroring in DSA,
I might add.

>         Andrew

Regards,
-Vladimir