Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] net: dsa: mediatek: combine MediaTek tag with VLAN tag

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Dec 07 2017 - 10:30:26 EST


> @@ -25,20 +28,37 @@ static struct sk_buff *mtk_tag_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
> {
> struct dsa_port *dp = dsa_slave_to_port(dev);
> u8 *mtk_tag;
> + bool is_vlan_skb = true;

..

> + /* Mark tag attribute on special tag insertion to notify hardware
> + * whether that's a combined special tag with 802.1Q header.
> + */
> + mtk_tag[0] = is_vlan_skb ? MTK_HDR_XMIT_TAGGED_TPID_8100 :
> + MTK_HDR_XMIT_UNTAGGED;
> mtk_tag[1] = (1 << dp->index) & MTK_HDR_XMIT_DP_BIT_MASK;
> - mtk_tag[2] = 0;
> - mtk_tag[3] = 0;
> +
> + /* Tag control information is kept for 802.1Q */
> + if (!is_vlan_skb) {
> + mtk_tag[2] = 0;
> + mtk_tag[3] = 0;
> + }
>
> return skb;
> }

Hi Sean

So you can mark a packet for egress. What about ingress? How do you
know the VLAN/PORT combination for packets the CPU receives? I would
of expected a similar change to mtk_tag_rcv().

Andrew