net: marvell: prestera: implement software MDB entries allocation
Define bridge MDB entry (software entry): - entry that get's created upon receiving MDB management events (create/delete), that inherently defines a software entry, which can be enabled (offloaded to the HW) or disabled (removed from HW). This separation is done to achieve a better highlevel management of HW resources - software MDB entry could exist, while it's not necessarily should be configured on the HW. For example: by default, the Linux behavior would not replicate multicast traffic to multicast group members if there's no active multicast router and thus - no actual multicast traffic can be received/sent. So, until multicast router appears on the system no HW configuration should be applied, although SW MDB entries should be tracked. Another example would be altering state of 'multicast enabled' on the bridge: MC_DISABLED should invoke disabling / clearing multicast groups of specified bridge on the HW, yet upon receiving 'multicast enabled' event, driver should reconfigure any existing software MDB groups on the HW. Keeping track of software MDB entries in such way makes it possible to properly react on such events. Define bridge MDB port entry (software entry): - entry that helps keeping track (on software - driver - level) of which bridge mebemer interface joined any give MDB group; Co-developed-by: Yevhen Orlov <yevhen.orlov@plvision.eu> Signed-off-by: Yevhen Orlov <yevhen.orlov@plvision.eu> Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Mazur <oleksandr.mazur@plvision.eu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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