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Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 net-next 1/4] net: bridge: add fdb flag to extent
 locked port feature
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Date:   Tue, 31 May 2022 11:34:21 +0200
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> Just to give you another data point about how this works in other
> devices, I can say that at least in Spectrum this works a bit
> differently. Packets that ingress via a locked port and incur an FDB
> miss are trapped to the CPU where they should be injected into the Rx
> path so that the bridge will create the 'locked' FDB entry and notify it
> to user space. The packets are obviously rated limited as the CPU cannot
> handle billions of packets per second, unlike the ASIC. The limit is not
> per bridge port (or even per bridge), but instead global to the entire
> device.

Btw, will the bridge not create a SWITCHDEV_FDB_ADD_TO_DEVICE event
towards the switchcore in the scheme you mention and thus add an entry
that opens up for the specified mac address?