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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/4] net: switchdev: add support for
 offloading of fdb locked flag
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Date:   Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:32:08 +0100
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On ons, mar 23, 2022 at 16:43, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 01:49:32PM +0100, Hans Schultz wrote:
>> >> Does someone have an idea why there at this point is no option to add a
>> >> dynamic fdb entry?
>> >> 
>> >> The fdb added entries here do not age out, while the ATU entries do
>> >> (after 5 min), resulting in unsynced ATU vs fdb.
>> >
>> > I think the expectation is to use br_fdb_external_learn_del() if the
>> > externally learned entry expires. The bridge should not age by itself
>> > FDB entries learned externally.
>> >
>> 
>> It seems to me that something is missing then?
>> My tests using trafgen that I gave a report on to Lunn generated massive
>> amounts of fdb entries, but after a while the ATU was clean and the fdb
>> was still full of random entries...
>
> I'm no longer sure where you are, sorry..
> I think we discussed that you need to enable ATU age interrupts in order
> to keep the ATU in sync with the bridge FDB? Which means either to
> delete the locked FDB entries from the bridge when they age out in the
> ATU, or to keep refreshing locked ATU entries.
> So it seems that you're doing neither of those 2 things if you end up
> with bridge FDB entries which are no longer in the ATU.

Any idea why G2 offset 5 ATUAgeIntEn (bit 10) is set? There is no define
for it, so I assume it is something default?