Re: [PATCH net v2 0/5] net: dsa: b53: Various ARL fixes

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 20:26:50 -0700

> Hi David, Andrew, Vivien, Jakub,
> 
> This patch series fixes a number of short comings in the existing b53
> driver ARL management logic in particular:
> 
> - we were not looking up the {MAC,VID} tuples against their VID, despite
>   having VLANs enabled
> 
> - the MDB entries (multicast) would lose their validity as soon as a
>   single port in the vector would leave the entry
> 
> - the ARL was currently under utilized because we would always place new
>   entries in bin index #1, instead of using all possible bins available,
>   thus reducing the ARL effective size by 50% or 75% depending on the
>   switch generation
> 
> - it was possible to overwrite the ARL entries because no proper space
>   verification was done
> 
> This patch series addresses all of these issues.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - added a new patch to correctly flip invidual VLAN learning vs. shared
>   VLAN learning depending on the global VLAN state
> 
> - added Andrew's R-b tags for patches which did not change
> 
> - corrected some verbosity and minor issues in patch #4 to match caller
>   expectations, also avoid a variable length DECLARE_BITMAP() call

Series applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.