[net-next PATCH v9 3/4] net: dsa: Add Airoha AN8855 5-Port Gigabit DSA Switch driver

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 06:26:01PM +0100, Christian Marangi wrote:
> Concept looks handy, ideally I can just assign one ID for each port
> like:
> port 1 -> FIB 1
> port 2 -> FIB 1
> port 3 -> FIB 2
> 
> Question:
> Ports of the same bridge should have the same FIB?

The answer, as well as many other explanations, is under the "Address
databases" section of Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst. Please read
it through before starting to implement anything.

> What I need to check is how the switch handle this for learning. Does
> the switch correctly create FDB entry with the right FIB?

You're asking me how an8855 behaves? I have no idea, I never interacted
with it :-|

The idea as far as the DSA API is concerned would be to learn addresses
in the bridge database (DSA_DB_BRIDGE) that the user port is configured
for, and not learn any addresses in the port-private database (DSA_DB_PORT).

> If that's not the case then I think assisted_learning is needed and HW
> Learn can't be used?

ds->assisted_learning_on_cpu_port applies, as suggested by its name,
only on the CPU port. On user ports, address learning should work normally.

As you will find in the documentation, the CPU port is not like a user
port, in the sense that it is not configured to service a single address
database, but all of them. So, source learning on the CPU port will not
work unless the switch knows which address database should each packet
be associated with.

In principle, one way could be to pass, during tagger xmit, the database ID,
so that the switch knows that it must learn the MAC SA of this packet in
this FID. I don't have the full image of the Mediatek DSA tag format,
but if an8855 is anything like mt7530, this option isn't available.
Thus, like mt7530, it needs to set ds->assisted_learning_on_cpu_port, so
that software will call port_fdb_add() on the CPU port with the correct
dsa_db (for the right bridge) as argument. But I don't think that is
going to pose any sort of issue.

> (I still need to check if I can assign a default FIB for a port...
> Currently the STP register are 2 bit for each FIB id, so 16 different
> FIB are possible)
> 
> Also do we have a script for selft tests? I remember there was one back
> in the days for fdb isolation?

I don't remember right now, I don't think we do. I'll try to come up
with something in the following days.